Louise (Jenkins) Meriwether (1923 - 2023)

Born 8 May 1923 in Haverstraw, Rockland, New York, United States

Wife of Angelo Ivan Meriwether — married May 1950 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Died 10 Oct 2023 at age 100 in New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

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Louise (Jenkins) Meriwether was a centenarian, living to age 100.

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Louise Meriwether was an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children. She is best known for her first novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970), which draws on autobiographical elements about growing up in Harlem, New York City, during the Depression and in the era after the Harlem Renaissance.

Louise Perkins was born on May 8, 1923 in Haverstraw, Rockland, New York, United States, daughter of Marion Lloyd Perkins (1896–>1950) and Julia Unknown (1898–>1950).^[1]

In 1930, Louise was living in Bronx, Bronx, New York. ^[1]

In 1940, Louise was living in New York. ^[2]

In 1950, Louise was living in New York. ^[3]

Also in 1950, she married Angelo Meriwether. Angelo was a teacher. They moved to St. Paul, Minnesota and then on to Los Angeles, California. Angelo and Louise divorced before 1957 because she married Earl Howe in 1957. They also divorced.

In the early 1960s, Ms. Meriwether was a reporter for the black newspaper, The Los Angeles Sentinel for which she interviewed Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. In 1965, she earned her master’s in journalism from the University of California in Los Angeles.

Louise died on October 10, 2023 in New York City, New York, aged 100.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Year: 1930; Census Place: Bronx, Bronx, New York; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0355; FHL microfilm: 2341209.
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, New York, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02660; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 31-1518.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1950 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022. National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: 1308; Page: 19; Enumeration District: 3-844.

See also:

• Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017. New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Manhattan; Volume Number: 15.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Meriwether
• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/books/louise-meriwether-dead.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/10/13/louise-meriwether-dead/
• https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/author-activist-louise-meriwether-wrote-daddy-number-runner-103881254
• Wikidata: Item Q6688853