Sunday, January 21, 2007

Rev. Frederick F. Sawyer (Black Minister)

Rev. Frederick F. Sawyer officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1879 - Thomas Christmas & Mittie Edgar, 10/2/1879

He was the husband of Hester Sawyer.
He appeared on the 1880 Census in Monroe County at Union as a Black Male, age 39, preacher, with his wife Hester (age 54) and with Thomas W. Boothe (age 45). (enumerated as Frederic Sawyers in this census).
He was the "preacher in charge of the Methodist Church" at which he performed the Christmas-Edgar marriage.

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