Julia Pennington (Gibbs) Muse (1854 - 1934)

Born 21 May 1854 in Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States

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Died 19 Feb 1934 at age 79 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Julia (Gibbs) Muse is a part of US Black heritage.

Biography

Julia was born in 1854 in New York City, the daughter of Dr Jonathan Gibbs and Mrs. Anna (Harris) Gibbs-Perkins, who divorced when she was eight years old.

She was one of the first two black students who attended and graduated Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut. She was also one of the first two black teachers who served on the Board of Education for the city of New Haven, Connecticut. ^[1]

Her obituary also states, ''Her mother, Mrs. Anna Gibbs-Perkins, was a direct descendant of an African prince, Adam Campanka, and of the Shinnecock Indians of Long Island." ^[1]

She passed away at home on Monday, February 19, 1934. ^[1]

She was buried in the family plot in Evergreen Cemetery, in New Haven, Connecticut. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Obituary of Julia Pennington Gibbs Muse, in The New York Age, (New York, New York), Saturday, March 3, 1934, https://www.newspapers.com/image/40879879/
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #147388982, Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut

see also:

• Dinnella-Borrego, 49–50; Phyllis Gibbs Fauntleroy, Linking The Gibbs Chain, (Washington, D.C.: P.G. Fauntleroy, 1995), 7; Jonathan C. Gibbs, M.D., "An Essay On The Life And Times of Rev. Jonathan C. Gibbs of Florida, 1821–1874," (unpublished, no date), in the possession of Phyllis Gibbs Fauntleroy.