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104-Year-Old Negress Has Died, April 22, 1924

Negress 104 Years Dies at New Bern

By the Associated Press

New Bern, N.C., April 21—Joe Satchell, negress, whose age was given as 104 years, died here the other day. She was one of the servants in the house of Mrs. Theresea Stewart for more than 40 years, it was stated, and had served the family with an “unequaled faith.”

Joe, it was said, was owned by Joe Satchell of Washington before the Civil war and came to this city at the close of hostilities and took the name of her former master.

About 30 years ago, Mrs. Stewart gave Joe a discarded silk dress. It was kept carefully stored away by the negress, and she wore it only on special occasions, it was related. Joe was buried in the same dress.

From page 3 of the Durham Morning Herald, April 22, 1924

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