COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding America Kittrell
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Bio 548
Item Description:
Kittrell, America - Biographical information for Mrs. America [Mother] Kittrell [aka Kitrell]; her portrait; "Former Missouri Negro Slave Now is Resident of Cheyenne" by Billee Wheelock, Wyoming State Tribune, May 23, 1937; "Life on the Plantations of Missouri. A Story of the Days of Slavery" by Laura Briggs; portrait
Creator:
Laura Briggs
Location:
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Date:
1938 November 2
Notes:
Boone Co. (Mo. - b: 1854)
Notes:
Kitrell, David (husband, born: ? - married: 1884 - died: 1892 in Missouri? - buried: ?)
Notes:
3 children: a son & 2 daughters: Virginia
Notes:
died: 1945 at Los Angeles (Calif.)
Notes:
buried: at Los Angeles?
Notes:
Casper (Wyo. - arrived 1917)
Notes:
Natrona Co.
Notes:
Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Notes:
cook--Wyoming
Notes:
house worker--Wyoming
Notes:
Order of the Eastern Star
Notes:
Kitrell, David (husband - m: 1884)
Notes:
Bible, her "library"
Notes:
Methodist
Notes:
Baptist
Notes:
Bolling, Captain (uncle of Gen. Robert E. Lee)
Notes:
Kittrell
Notes:
Kittrell, Thomas (father, Blackhawk Indian)
Notes:
born: 1854 in Boone Co. (Mo.)
Type:
Text