Black female, born about 1819. She died on 25 October 1897 at the age of 78 in Escambia County, FL. According to her death record, she was married at the time of her death, but her husband’s name is not provided. She was a housewife, and died of paralysis (which probably referred to the effects of a stroke). She was buried in the Escambia County Poor Farm cemetery.
Her death was announced in the Mortuary Report for 30 October 1897 in the Pensacola Daily News, but no more information was provided.
I have not been able to locate Celia Bennett, a task made even more difficult by the fact that her place of birth was not provided in her death record. I have found a Celia Benson in the 1880 federal census of Pensacola, but of the two other Celia Bennetts I have found – both in Georgia – one was far too young and the other was listed as White and a a member of a White family. Research continues.
SOURCES:
Pensacola births and deaths, 1891-1910, Escambia County (Florida) Health Department. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973.
“Mortuary Report.” Pensacola Daily News, 30 October 1897, p. 3.