Celebrating Black Brides: Profile #35
/Couple: Charlotte Tomlinson and Richmond Sanders
Date of Wedding: 1850
Place: Smithfield, NC
Officiant: Couple jumped the broom since enslaved people could not legally marry.
Fun facts:
The groom was born around 1825 and the bride was born around 1831. They lived on different slave plantations.
They began acting as husband and wife in 1850.
After Emancipation, the couple went to their local courthouse to make their marriage legal. They appeared before the Clerk of Court in Johnston County, NC on March 10, 1866.
The couple had 5 children before Emancipation and 5 children after Emancipation.
By 1879, the couple had amassed over 100 acres of land on the very property where the groom had been enslaved.
