Black male, born about 1870 in Tennessee or Ohio. He died of alcoholism at the Pensacola, Florida police station on January 18, 1907. There was no information on his age, marital status, or occupation. J. Harris Pierpont was the physician on record. He was buried at the Escambia County Poor Farm cemetery.
Two days after his death, The Pensacola Journal reported he had been been found on the street and sent to the city jail by police officers a few days previous “for safekeeping and treatment.” His condition deteriorated “notwithstanding the fact that he was given the best attention possible at the jail, and finally expired after suffering terrible agonies.” They reported his cause of death as delerium tremens.
An Augustus Carlisle appeared in the 1898 Pensacola City Directory. He worked as a porter and lived at 511 N Alcaniz St.
A Gus Carlisle appeared in the 1900 Federal census for Pensacola, living as a lodger at 511 Alcaniz Street. He was enumerated as a Black male, 30 years old, born in April 1870 in Ohio of two parents born in Ohio. He worked as a bartender and was unable to read or write. He had been married to his wife, Hannah, for eleven years. Hannah was a Black female, 28 years old, born in June 1871 in Florida of two parents born in Florida. She worked at Star Laundry and was also unable to read or write. There was also a child, Candicy Carlisle, 3 years old, born in Florida in December 1896. (The census taker got his lines crossed; however, he had little Candicy working as a bar tender and able to read and write.) Candicy was not specifically enumerated as Gus and Hannah’s daughter (she is a Lodger in relation to the head of the hosuehold, George Washington) but Hannah had borne only one child by that time, with one child living – presumably Candicy.
However, an Augustus Carlisle appears in the 1900 Federal Census as an inmate in the City Prison. This Augustus was a Black male, born November 1870 in Tennessee of two parents born in Tennessee. He was married and not literate; his occupation was laborer.
As both census records indicate they were done in the first part of June 1900, I might have dismissed the two records as there having been two men of the same name. However, an article from The Pensacola News of June 9, 1900, indicates that Gus Carlile [sic] was fined $25 for assaulting Hannah Carlisle. (For her part, Hannah was fined $10 for cursing and abusing on Christina Johnson – an exciting night for all, apparently.) So it is entirely possible that Gus Carlisle was enumerated once with his family on June 5, 1900, got arrested on June 8, and was in jail by June 14, when the jail enumeration was done. (The only wrench in that theory is that there is no clear indication that Gus was given jail time in addition to, or instead of, his fine, unless it was unspoken that jail was the penalty for not being able to pay the fine.) I find it reasonable to conclude that they are, in fact, the same man, and that Gus’ given name was Augustus.
Neither Gus nor Hannah appears in the next extant City Directories (1903, 1905 and 1907). A Hannah Carlisle married Nathan Mahone in September 1904, then Ms. Hannah Mahone apparently continues her regular run-ins with law enforcement before disappearing from the records once again after a stint in the State Prison Camps. In 1910 Candasy appeared in the household of Rev. Charles W.T. Wynn and his wife, Carrie, as one of two adopted daughters. I cannot find a familial relationship between Candasy and anyone else in that household. I find a marriage record for an Anice Wynn on June 29, 1914 to Charlie Nicholas at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, but I am not at all sure that the bride is Candasy.
FAMILY:
Wife: Hannah (maiden name unknown)
Daughter: Candasy (perhaps Candace) Carlisle Wynne
SOURCES:
Death record of Gus Carslyle [sic]. Pensacola births and deaths, 1891-1910, Escambia County (Florida) Health Department. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973.
U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Household of Gus Carlisle. Year: 1900; Census Place: Pensacola, Escambia, Florida; Roll: 168; Page: 17; Enumeration District: 0023. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
“Police Court,” The Daily News [Pensacola, FL]. 9 JUN 1900, p. 4.
Enumeration of City Prison. Year: 1900; Census Place: Pensacola, Escambia, Florida; Roll: 168; Page: 17; Enumeration District: 0023. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
“Negro Woman a Shoplifter,” The Daily News [Pensacola, FL]. 6 JAN 1903, p. 5.
Marriage record of Nathan Mahone and Hannah Carlisle. Transcribed Marriage Records of Escambia County, 1901-1918. West Florida Genealogical Society, 2011.
“Negro Died in the City Jail of Delerium Tremens,” The Pensacola Journal, 20 JAN 1907, p. 8.
“Negress Escapes from County Jail.” The Pensacola Journal[Pensacola, FL]. 30 APR 1908, p. 1.
“Two Years at Hard Labor.” The Pensacola Journal [Pensacola, FL]. 2 JUN 1908, p. 5.
Household of Charlie Gwynne [sic]. Year: 1910; Census Place: Precinct 12, Escambia, Florida; Roll: T624_160; Page: 12b; Enumeration District: 0014; FHL microfilm: 1374173. Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Marriage record of Charlie Nicholas and Anice Wynn. Transcribed Marriage Records of Escambia County, 1901-1918. West Florida Genealogical Society, 2011.