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Caroline Matilda “Carrie” <I>Wall</I> Langston

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Caroline Matilda “Carrie” Wall Langston

Birth
Death
16 Mar 1915 (aged 81–82)
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Burial
Benning, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA GPS-Latitude: 38.8862773, Longitude: -76.9386234
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Caroline Matilda Wall, who also graduated from Oberlin College. From North Carolina, she was the emancipated daughter of an enslaved mother and a wealthy white planter, Colonel Stephen Wall. The planter freed his mixed-race daughters Sara and Caroline, and sent them to Ohio to be raised in an affluent Quaker household. An intellectual partner of Langston, Caroline had five children with him, one of whom died in childhood.

Caroline Matilda Wall, who also graduated from Oberlin College. From North Carolina, she was the emancipated daughter of an enslaved mother and a wealthy white planter, Colonel Stephen Wall. The planter freed his mixed-race daughters Sara and Caroline, and sent them to Ohio to be raised in an affluent Quaker household. An intellectual partner of Langston, Caroline had five children with him, one of whom died in childhood.

Gravesite Details

wife of John Mercer Langston



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