Subject: The Birth and Burial misinformation of illiterate information givers. The death certificate of Henrietta Ware is incorrect and there is no birth certificate. Her grandson was born in 1899 (records show this); Her daughter was born at least 19 years prior to the birth of her son, she was married to Willie “Boise” Flennory, so possibly Mary (Mary Flennory-West) was born in 1978 to 1880. Henrietta is the grandmother of Percy Flennory.
Henrietta Hewitt-Ware, My great Grandmother must have been born at least 13 years before the daughter (Mary Flennory_West, a mulatto ). So Henrietta most have been born about 1867 or before. However the stories of Henrietta's birth as told in Folklore tells of a slaver owners' Mid-wife Husbandman (he helped delivered babies); who supposedly was given special permission to married Henrietta's mother at age12. This selected bride at age 12 was a house servant and beautiful, it is sad]. So what is Henrietta's true age?? Black history is mostly by hearsay as only bible records recorded the actual negro birth during slavery times. I suspect Henrietta was born shortly after 1865.