Adelaide (Hickman) Warren (abt. 1840)

Born about 1840 in Virginia, United States

Wife of Peter Warren — married [date unknown] in Alabama, United States

Died [date unknown] in Arkansas, United States

Biography

Adelaide (Hickman) Warren is a part of US Black heritage.

Adelaide's daughter Adelaide J. Vaughn was interviewed in Little Rock, Arkansas about 1937 about her life and her time as an enslaved person.

"My father's name was Peter Warren and my mother was named Adelaide Warren. Before she was married, she went by her owner's name, Hickman. My daddy belonged to the Phillips but he didn't go in their name. He went in the Warren's name. He did that because he liked them. Phillips was his real father, but he sold him to the Warrens and he took their name and kept it. They treated him nice and he just stayed on in their name. He didn't marry till after both of them were free. He met her somewheres away from the Hickman's. They married in Alabama. Mama was born and mostly reared in Virginia and then come to Alabama. That's were I was born, in Alabama. And they left there and came here. I was four years old when they come here."

"My father and mother had five children. I don't know how many brothers my father had. I have heard my mother say she had four sisters. I never heard her say nothin' 'bout no brothers -- just sisters.

Interview: daughter Adelaide J. Vaughn was interviewed in Little Rock, Arkansas by Samuel S. Taylor as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ (1936) Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 7, Vaden-Young, pp. 7-12, images 10-15 of 262. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mesn027/.