I love to find stories of the people who were different....who dared to follow their heart....who challenged the status quo.......how absolutely glorious is it to be different!
Sarah Everett, 1859, was born in Colchester Co, Nova Scotia to Philip Vincent Everett and Catherine Creighton; Sarah was the great-granddaughter of George Vincent and Mary Higgins.
Sarah was a dressmaker who landed in Massachusetts abt 1881 and shortly thereafter, married a black man by the name of William Farrow. Although they had five children together, only one lived long enough to get married and have her own family.
All I was able to discover about William Farrow was based on the marriage record which indicated that he was from Charlottesville, VA and that his parents were William & Evelina Farrow. That's it.
Sarah died in 1905 and is buried at the Cambridge Cemetery in Cambridge, MA along with four of her children. It appears William died before 1900 as Sarah indicated she was a widow on the 1900 census; he is most likely buried at the same cemetery but I could find no evidence.
Their daughter, Florence Louise Farrow, went on to marry a black man by the name of Adolphus Armstead Mitchell. He was the son of Berry Mitchell and Leah Ann Barrett. Adolphus was born in Boston but his parents hailed from Virginia.
I couldn't find death or burial entries for these two but it appears they lived in the Winthrop & Newburyport areas of Massachusetts and had six children together: Olive, Ralph, Doris, Ernest, Ruth, and Dorothy.
I wish I could have found out more about this wonderfully liberal clan!
FHL - William and Sarah's Marriage Entry
FHL - Adolphus & Florence's Marriage Entry
Liberal indeed! Love it!
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