Matilda Dromgoole (abt. 1845 - 1929)

Born about Mar 1845 in Virginia, United States

Died 1 Nov 1929 at about age 84 in Davidson, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Matilda Dromgoole is a part of US Black heritage.

Matilda Dromgoole was born in March 1845 in Virginia. She died on November 1, 1929, in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 84, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.

Name at birth is surname of slave owner, John Easter Dromgoole Dromgoole-82.

"Mammy was bought by the Dromgoole family and eventually was Mammy to Jean Faircloth-MacArthur. “my father bought her when a little child in old Virginia, and that he bought the child in order that she should not be parted from the mother, whom he had also brought. He took her home before him on his saddle. And in the family to which he took her was her home until they took her to that home the same nephew of mine had bought for her in beautiful Greenwood, the burying-ground of Nashville’s colored people.”

Sources

• 1920 United States Federal Census. Name: Matilda Droomgoole, age 75; birth year: 1845; birthplace: Virginia; home in 1920: Murfreesboro Ward 1, Rutherford, Tennessee; Street: East Lyth Street; Race: Black; female; relation to head of house: Servant; marital status: single; father's birthplace: Virginia; mother's birthplace: Virginia; occupation: Cook; Industry: Private Home; Employment: wage or salary. Household members: Richard Beard, age 77; Matilda Dromgoole, age 75; William Seward, age 33.

• Tennessee, Death Records, 1908-1958. Name: Matilda Drumgoole; female; Race: Colored (Black); age 85; birth date: 1844; death date: 1 Nov 1929; death place: Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108684814/matilda-dromgoole

• Obituary: The Daily News-Journal, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, November 12, 1929, page 3.

Repository

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