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Known African American Residents of Oxford (Deceased)

Born After 1900


Assembled by Professor Mark Auslander and his students during the development of the exhibition, "A Dream Deferred: African Americans at Emory and Oxford Colleges, 1836-1865" at the Hoke O’Kelly Library, January 2001 and is reproduced here by permission. 


Mrs. Willie Florence Alexander  1906-2000 

La Juan Ambler, Jr.  2000-2000

Charles Avery  1972-1972

Clifford Baker  (unknown)

James Belcher  1918-1983

Clydia Benton  ? - 1947

Legree H. Boswell  1925-1994

Annie Sue Brown  1906-1949

Leon Delano Brown  1920-1973

Ralph Gaither Brown  1915-1977

Lackie Bryant  ? - 1965

Sims “Dude” Bryant  ? - 1959

William Bryant  (unknown)

Josh B. Burke  1927-1959

Ethel L. White Cobb  (unknown)

Eric B. Cody  1981-1996

John Wesley Cody  1925-1979

Mary L. Coleman  1907-1995

Ray Coleman  1900-1984

Willie Roe Coleman, Sr.  1921-1985

Francis L. Collins  1947-1992

Israel Cook  ? - 1952

David Cooksey, Jr.  1982-1984

Lula Cullins  ? - 1975

Leroy Davis  1921-1957

Grace Hammonds Dixon  1928-1952

Beatrice Dobbs  1918-1972

Charlotte Dobbs  ? - 1953

George Dobbs, Jr.  1918-1977

Ruth Juanita G. Driskell  1910-1945

George Elliot  1919-1980

Nathaniel Elliot  1916-1976

Willie Maude Elliot  1921-1992

Flossie Wade Epps  1907-1990

Buck Gaither  1908-1977

Rev. Clifford Gaither  ? - 1974

Eloise Gaither  1901-1984

Henry Gaither  ? - 1960

Henry F. Gaither  1909-1992

Herbert Gaither  ? - 1913

Lucy Gaither  ? - 1979

Lucy M. Gaither  1908-1995

Minnie Gaither  1912-1996

Rochell Gaither, Jr.  1928-1966

Thomas Gaither  ? - 1911

Tommie Gaither  1916-1964

Willie Gaither  1900-1995

Lizzie Mae Gilstrap  1951-1986

Ophelia Gilstrap  1923-1991

Sammie Gilstrap  1909-1980

Olie May Glover  1909-1988

Emma Godfrey  1908-1988

Hibbler Godfrey Sr.  1902-1991

Sylvestra Godfrey  1901-1950

Jesse B. Graves  1908-1991

Sadie Green  1903-1995

Bessie Griffin  1914~1929

Henry Griffin Sr.  1914-1991

Marvin Hammonds  1909-1964

John Hanley  (unknown)

Mamie Lou Harris  1901-1976

Charles Hayes  1945-1998

Nancy Hayes  1920-1980

Rosa Hayes  ? - 1937

Cynthia Gaither Henderson  1960-1992

John Clark Henderson  1937-1995

John N. Henderson  1908-1975

William E. Hendrick  1916-1982

Jessie Hicks  1917-1988

John Evan Hope  ? - ~1956

Annie Howard  1919-1995

Baby Carlos Jackson  1990-1990

Essie B. Johnson  1937-1974

Robert L. Joiner Sr.  1921-1980

Minnie Lee Jones  1921-1973

Rosa L. Jones  ? - 1945

Willie G. Jones  1936-1983

J.B. Kelley  1908-1971

Addie Joe Key  1915-1986

Lottie King  1914-1995

Marion King  1939-1999

Henry A. Leslie  1906-1966

Floyd B. Mapp, Jr.  1915-1985

Samuel McKlurken  ? - 2000

Sarah Osborne McCollom  1912-1985

Arbie McKnight  1932-1985

Emma Louise McKnight  ? - 1957

Julia T. Mims  1907-1992

Cornelius Mitchell  1933-1969

Hudson Mitchell  ? - 1952

Lelia Opheia Mitchell  1928-1965

Lorenzo Mitchell Sr.  1930-1996

Lottie M. Mitchell  1908-1992

Maggie Mitchell  1907-1972

Warren Richard Mitchell  1926-1988

Ida Mullin  ? - 1928

Mattie B. Nolley  1914-1994

Luvada C. Perry  1916-1985

Mack Perry  1876-1976

Zack Perry  (unknown)

Roberta Pierce  1901-1998

Laura Ponder  (unknown)

Alfred Reese  ? - 1956

Frannie Reese  1900-1976

Lester Reese  1921-1964

Walter Reese  1977-1981

Annie D. Roseberry  (unknown)

Carl Roseberry Jr.  1913-1986

Ola Russell  1904-1974

Marie Elizabeth Shaw  1903-1982

William Shaw  ? - 1924

Jack Shields  1918~1998

Elizabeth Shepherd  1901-1968

Charles Richard Smith  ? - 1983

Claudine Smith  1914-1978

Earnest Lee Smith  1925-1993

Elizabeth Smith  1925-1995

Essie Baker Smith  (unknown)

Leila Mae Strong  1904-1966

Nancy Sutton  ? - 1941

Victoria B. Swanson  (unknown)

Dorothy L. Terrell  1929-1992

Vera M. Thomas  1916-1969

William Thomas III  1914-1979

Daisy L. Usher  1918-1985

John Henry Usher  1920-1971

Annie Joyce Wade  1932-1964

John Bob Wade  1946-1968

Julia Wade  (unknown)

Sarah Wade  1914-1977

Evelyn Williams  1910-1995

Lena Katie William  1910-1977

Fannie Wingfield  (unknown)

Charles Wright  1920-1988

Corrie L. Wright  1904-1988

Evelyn Wright  1931~1998 

Janie Bell Wright  1904-1991

John Wright  1910-1940

John D. Wright  1935-1994

Walter Wright  1937-1976

Albert B. Wyatt  1902-1976

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