Williams, Merriah

Title: Williams, Merriah
Gender: Female
Biography: Merriah is listed in the 1870 census as a domestic servant in the household of John Armstrong. She is the only African-American in the household, and is the correct age to be the enslaved woman recorded in previous census records.
Member: Williams family
Birth date: circa 1837
Place of birth: Kentucky
Occupation(s): Domestic servant (1870)
Employed by: Armstrong, John Hume
Relationship: Probable slaveholder: Armstrong, John H.; Armstrong, John Hume
Source(s): Population Schedules of the Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Slave Schedules; Population Schedules of the Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Slave Schedules; Ninth Census of the United States, 1870

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