Peter and Sina Stubblefield were still living in Weakley, Tennessee, when the 1880 U.S. Census was conducted. Harry was working for and living with them. Sina’s 37-year-old brother John Boyd, and her 30-year-old brother William Boyd were also residing with them. Sallie seems to have left the family. Peter passed away in 1890 and it appears Sina’s brother John convinced her to join John’s family in Long Beach. In 1900 Sina was living with her brother John Boyd, a real estate agent and his family in Long Beach, according to the U.S. Census. However, Harry wasn’t mentioned as being with her, he was still living in Weakley, Tennessee, with the George Knox family. His relation to the head of household was listed as “slave, Old Dave.” His marital…show more content… In the 1910 U.S. Census 75-year-old Sina was living at the Roselle Apartments with her widowed 57-year-old niece Willie Gardner, Willie’s 16-year-old son Reece, Sina’s nephews Terrace (age 26) and John (age 21) Boyd and their sister Roselle (17), as well as lodger Harry Stubblefield (66) and Lynne Dillon (21). Interestingly, Harry’s race is listed as “white.” Harry isn’t listed in any of the Long Beach city directories so I can’t say for sure when he joined Sina in Long Beach. Sina (1/31/1834-12/13/1911) died in 1911. Her body was taken to Weakley, Tennessee, to be buried next to her husband Peter Stubblefield (3/20/1827-2/28/1890) at the Obion Chapel Cemetery. What of Harry? Most likely he continued to reside at the Roselle until his death in 1913. Wouldn’t it have been interesting to ask Harry about his life as a slave? Was he the child of one of the white plantation owners? How did he come to fight for the Union during the Civil War and why/how did he come back to live with the Stubblefields in 1863 and stay with them after the…show more content… Louisa Jones (2/1858-8/26/1908) was also born in Tennessee. Freed after the war she had a son, Samuel McReynolds, born in 1871, when Louisa was a mere 13 years of age. The 1900 U.S. census notes that Louisa was a widow. She had given birth to 2 children, however only one, Samuel, was then living. Samuel is listed as “mulatto” in subsequent census records, indicating, perhaps, a white father. Louisa worked as a laundress and her son and daughter-in-law, Georgia, lived with her, as did Louis Clark a barber, also born in Tennessee the same year as Louisa. Her obituary in the Long Beach Press gives no details as to her death and family other than that she died and she was “colored.” The 50-year-old woman, who lived at 946 Lime Avenue, is buried at Sunnyside
