Caroline "Carrie" M. Wall

1833 - 1915

• Born	1833	North Carolina
  Gender	Female
  Died	16 Mar 1915	District of Columbia   [1]
  Buried	19 Mar 1915	District of Columbia
  Person ID	I146	Nashville
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2008

  
  

  Father	Stephen Wall,   d. 1845
  Mother	Priscilla
  Family ID	F50	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	John Mercer Langston,   b. 14 Dec 1829, Louisa County, Virginia ,   d. 15 Nov 1897, District of Columbia   [2, 3]
  Married	25 Oct 1854	Ohio   [4]
  Notes	Was counsel-general in Haiti from 1875-1883. [5]
  Children	> 1. Arthur D. Langston,   b. 03 Aug 1855, Ohio ,   d. 07 Apr 1908, St. Louis, Missouri > 2. Ralph E. Langston,   b. abt. 1857, Ohio > 3. Nettie DeElla Langston,   b. 17 Jun 1860, Ohio ,   d. 27 Sep 1938, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee > 4. Frank Mercer "Lamb" Langston,   b. abt. 1864, Ohio   5. Chinque Langston, Ohio
  Last Modified	14 May 2012
  Family ID	F39	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos

  Caroline Wall Langston From the book - From the Virginia plantation to the national capitol, or, The first and only Negro representative in Congress from the Old Dominion

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		1860 OH Census: John M & Carrie Langston Enumeration Date: 18 Jun 1860 Page: 48 Location: Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio #347 1. John M. Langston - age 30, lawyer, real estate $12,000, personal estate $5,000 2. Caroline M. - age 25 3. Arthur - age 5 4. Ralph - age 3 5. Chin? - female, age 2 + 3 non-relatives Link to full image.
  		1870 OH Census: John M. & Caroline Langston Enumeration Date: 24 Nov 1860 Page: 70 Location: Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio #493 1. Langston, John M - age 40, lawywer, real estate $40,000 2. Caroline M. - age 36 3. Arthur - age 14 4. Ralph - age 13 5. Nettie - age 10 6. Frank - age 6 7. Langston, Jennie -age 18, black, 8. Percival, Jane - age 23, day servant Link to full image.
  		1880 DC Census: Caroline Langston Enumeration Date: 3 Jun 1880 Enumeration District: 4 Page: 15 Location: District of Columbia #126 1. Langston, Caroline - age 42 2. Ralph - son, age 23 3. Frank - son, age 16 4. Ida - daughter-in-law, age 23 5. John M. - grandson, born in Dec Note: Ida and John M. were also enumerated in Missouri. Link to full image.
  		1910 DC Census: Carrie Langston Enumeration District: 158 Page: 20A Location: District of Columbia # 1. Carrie - head, 65, widowed, mother of 5 kids, three still living 2. Frank - son, age 23 3. India B. - daughter-in-law, age 34, married 15 years, 2 children and both alive 4. Nettie N. - granddaughter, age 13 Link to full image.
  		Obituary: Carrie M. Langston Appeared in the Washington Post.
  		Death Certificate: Carye Langston Napier Born: 1 Feb 1894 in Courtland, Alabama Father: Frank M. Langston Mother: India Bynum Informant: Hon. J.C. Napier Occupation: Stenographer at Fisk University

  
  

  Headstones

  Headstone: John Mercer & Caroline M. Langston

  
  

• Sources

  [S38] Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003, (Ancestry.com), http://tinyurl.com/ywh65u.. Appeared in the Washington Post [S1] Profiles of African-Americans in Tennessee, Annual Local Conference on Afro-American Culture and History, (http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/digitizing.html). [S34] Aristocrats of Color: the Black Elite, 1880-1920, Gatewood, William B., (University of Arkansas Press, 2000), 120. [S41] Negro in American history : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent, John Wesley Cromwell, (American Negro Academy, 1914), http://books.google.com/books?id=IY5GAAAAMAAJ., 159. [S61] John Mercer Langston Biographical Sketch, (Oberlin University), http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/OYTT-images/JM..