African Americans of the Kentucky Borderlands

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• Sleet, Myrtle C.
• Delaney, Fannie
• Green, Thomas [2]
• Cleveland, Mary
• Brockman, Louisa
• Cleveland, Eliza
• Cleveland, Charles
• Aylor, Hannah F.
• Taylor, Thomas W.
• McNeal, Rachel
  Rebecca McNeal leaves estate to daughters Mariah and Polly. In 1870, Rachel is living with Polly and Mariah. Polly leaves home and 1 acre to Rachel and Thomas McNeal
• Baker, Mabel K.
• Hamilton, Bertha E.
• Simson, Mary F.
• Murray, Catherine M.
  Catherine (Murray) Dunson was a young African American woman born November 10, 1918 to Fritz and Pearl Weaver Murray. In the early 1930s, Dunson married Andrew Dunson (b. 1913). The couple had a daughter Pearl Winifred in 1933 that later died at nine months of age. A little over a year later, Catherine Dunson died of Tuberculosis. She was only sixteen years old.
• Thomas, Thomas
  Thomas Thomas was one of the original trustees of the "Colored Baptist Association," who purchased the lots for the First Baptist Church of Florence.
• Hamilton, Mary Elizabeth
• Hamilton, Theresa
• Hamilton, Cleve
• Baker, Gulliver Lee
  According to his draft registration card Gulliver was tall, slender, and partially blind in one eye.
• Baker, Thomas E.
• Bohannon, Buford
  It is unclear if Buford Bohannon was enslaved in Boone County (Ky.), but he is buried in the Florence Cemetery.
• Carneal, Orlando
  Orlando is listed as Orlando Carneal as a free man. Military records list his name as Orlando Goodrich.
• Frazier, Nancy
  She is listed as "black" in her birth record.
• Bell, Edmond