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Black Seventh-day Adventist Obituaries

Black Adventist gather around the grave of Sojourner Truth in Battle Creek, Michigan, c. 1935

B

Amelia Baker

Warren S. Banfield

Eri L. Barr

Horace Barr

Maurice T. Battle

Alma Blackmon

David Blake

Lottie Blake

Frank L. Bland

Louis H. Bland

Frances Bliss

Arna Bontemps

Mary Inez Booth

Henrietta Branch

Thomas H. Branch

Alice Brantley

Mary Britton

C.D. Brooks

Charles L. Brooks

Stennett Brooks

Taswell B. Buckner

Natelkka Burrell

James R. Buster

Lucy Byard

C

Robert H. Carter

W. Augustus Cheatham

James Alexander Chiles

Jennie Bowman Clarke

Bill Cleveland

Earl E. Cleveland

Martin Leslie Cook

Emerson Cooper

Jeter E. Cox

Eugenia I. Cunningham

D

James G. Dasent

Daniel Davis

Theodore C. Dawson

William Levi Dawson

Rosetta Douglass-Sprague

Charles E. Dudley

Eva B. Dykes

James E. Dykes

F

Sterline Foster

G

Alvin R. Goulbourne, Sr.

Addie Guy

H

Frank Hale, Jr.

William J. Hardy

Chessie Harris

C. Dunbar Henri

Viola S. Henry

Bekele Heye

James H. Howard

R.T. Hudson

Edwin J. Humphrey

James K. Humphrey

I

L.O. Irons

J

Rudy James

Murray E. Joiner, Sr.

Frank Jones

Jacob Justiss

K

Harvey Ward Kibble

Charles Kinny

Samson Kisekka

Anna Knight

L

J.H. Laurence

Alyne Dumas Lee

Alpheaus Pruitt Lightford

M

Garland Millet

Ursula Millet

James Minisee

William Minisee

James L. Moran

Irene Morgan

Calvin E. Moseley

Kenneth Mulzac

N

Milton E. Nebblett

Leonard Newton

P

Gaines R. Partridge

James E. Patterson

Lorenzo Paytee

Frank. L. Peterson

George E. Peters

Addison V. Pinkney

Maui Pomare

Joseph T. Powell

R

Jean Reaves

Louis B. Reynolds

Reginald Robinson

S

William C. Scales, Jr.

William C. Scales, Sr.

Sydney Scott

Melvin Seard

Lewis C. Sheafe

Harold D. Singleton

Reger C. Smith, Jr.

Randolph P. Stafford

Matthew C. Strachan

Ward D. Sumpter

T

Ruth Temple

Lindsay Thomas, Jr.

Owen A. Troy

Ruby Troy

Sojourner Truth

W

Eric C. Ward

Lennox S. Westney

Edward Woods, Jr.

Emma Wood

Rebecca White

Eleanor Wright