Friend of Friends Friday~Granny Sela, Slave

Died.

In Union county, on the 12th of March, GRANNY SELA, (a slave, the property of Mrs. Jane Gathings,) 110 years of age.
Granny Sela said she was a grown woman in the Revolutionary war, and had three children when in Independence was declared. She enjoyed remarkable good health and retained the faculties of her mind up to the time of her death. Her conversation was interesting and instructive. She was a consistent member of the Baptist Church, and died in the triumphs of the christian faith.                                          D. A. C.















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[1] Unknown newspaper, 1 April 1861, Union County, NC. Among some loose Gathings Family papers.