Rufus Hargrove (1834)

Born 1834 in Virginia, United States

Descendants

Biography

Rufus Hargrove is a part of US Black heritage.

Rufus was born in 1834.

Rufus' daughter Anna Mitchel was interviewed about 1937 in Raleigh, North Carolina about her life and her time as an enslaved person.

"I wus borned in Vance County an' I 'longed ter Mr. Joseph Hargrove, de same man what owned Emily an' Rufus Hargrove, my mammy an' pappy. He also owned Joseph an' Cora, my brudder an' sister. My mammy uster 'long ter 'nother man what lived in Virginia, but Mr. Hargrove bought her when she wus sold on de choppin' block at Richmon'. He already had my pappy so dey got married dar on his plantation."

"I 'members when Marse Joseph come out to de slave cabins an' tells us dat we can leave case we am free. I think dat dat wus de las' of August case de fodder wus in."

Interview: Anna Mitchel was interviewed in Raleigh, North Carolina by Mary Hicks as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Anna Mitchel - Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 2; pages 113-115, images 117-119 of 440.

• "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:62D9-BCXF : Sun Mar 10 04:05:13 UTC 2024), Entry for Rufus Hargrove and Emily Hargrove, 27 Aug.

• "United States Census, 1870", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWZ1-7CY : Tue Mar 05 08:22:44 UTC 2024), Entry for Rufus Hargrove, 1870.

• "United States Census, 1880", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC6T-R4S : Sat Mar 09 00:51:24 UTC 2024), Entry for Rufus Smith and Emily Smith, 1880.

• "United States Census, 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS13-J1B : Thu Apr 11 19:19:45 UTC 2024), Entry for Roufus Smith and Emly Smith, 1900.

Research Notes

Daughter Anna's WPA interview gives the last name Hargrove for her parents. This was the surname of their enslaver. It seems the family used the last name Smith after the Civil War.