Aaron Braswell

Black male, born about 1880 in Alabama. He died on 2 January 1900 in Pensacola, Florida, of pneumonia. At the time of his death, he was single, had been in the state for about 6 months and was working as a laborer. The physician was Boykin Jones, and he was buried in the Escambia County Poor Farm cemetery by Pou & Robinson.

His death notice was published in The Pensacola News the week after his death, but it provides only the information from the death record.

The only Aaron Braswell to appear in an Alabama census was from June of 1900, almost six months after the death of Aaron in Pensacola.

The only Aaron Braswell who presents as being a Black male of the correct age is an infant in the household of Prac Braswell, in Toisnot, NC. While this is a long way from Alabama, it is not out of the question that whomever served as the informant on the death record was misinformed. Without further means of verifying Aaron’s place of birth or family of origin, there is probably not much more to be found at this time.

SOURCE:

Pensacola births and deaths, 1891-1910, Escambia County (Florida) Health Department. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973.

“Vital Statistics: Deaths,” The Pensacola News, 8 JAN 1900, p. 5.