Fannie (Livingston) McCay (abt. 1862)

Born about Jun 1862 in Georgia, United States

Biography

Fannie (Livingston) McCay is a part of US Black heritage.

Fannie McCay was interviewed in the late 1930's in Miami, Dade County, Florida as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

"Fannie McCay, 1720 NW 3rd Court, Miami, Florida was born on a plantation while her mother and father were slaves; she claims her age is 73 years which would make her too young to remember "mancipation"." The interview can be read here, on image 380. The results are made available by the Library of Congress.^[1]

She was a member of the "Ex Slave Club." ^[2]

"This club now claims twenty-five members, all over 88 years of age."'

Fannie 'West' was enumerated as a widow in the 1900 U.S. Census^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Fannie McCay - Vol. 3, Florida, page 377, image 380 of 382. https://www.loc.gov/resource/mesn.030
2. ↑ Ex-Slave Association of Greater Miami In Miami in 1939, Stetson Kennedy conducted extensive interviews at the Ex-Slave Association of Greater Miami. Located in the Liberty City district, a large black neighborhood, the club included twenty-five octogenarians and nonagenarians.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3JN-Z7Q : accessed 7 April 2021), Campbell Livingston in household of John Livingston, Militia District 271 Darien city, McIntosh, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 112, sheet 6A, family 137, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,210.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8G6-8NT : 19 February 2021), C Livingston, Darien, McIntosh, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 76, sheet 486A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,156.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTZM-JHT : 4 January 2021), Fannie McKay, Election Precinct 8E Daytona Beach, Volusia, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 64-30, sheet 13B, line 57, family 305, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 621.