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A late posting but I wanted to remember my grandmother, Lela Virginia Farnell Williams, who died this date in 1914, when my father was just 10 years old. She was born to Randel and Sallie (Jacobs) Farnell on 28 September 1876 in Live Oak, Suwannee County, Florida. Her father was a Florida Homesteader. She married my grandfather, William Gainer Williams on 12 February 1893. They moved to NYC in 1899 and then to Jersey City, NJ about 1903. My father was born there in 1904. Like her mother before her, she was a dressmaker. She died on Palm Sunday in 1914 from Polycystic kidney disease. She is buried in New York Bay Cemetery, in Jersey City. I am honored that her photo was chosen for the cover of BLACK HOMESTEADERS OF THE SOUTH, in honor of her father, Randel Farnell, a Florida Black Homesteader whose story is told in the book. #womenshistorymonth #suwanneecountyfl #jerseycitynj #blackwomenshistory #blackwomenshistorymatters https://www.instagram.com/p/CqW7Rw4sVFu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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