Passionate Abolitionist and
Witness to the American Civil War
Passionate Abolitionist and
Witness to the American Civil War
This document provides information on William Slater’s estate and also previously unknown information about his second wife, Harriett.
Transcription pencilled notes on back of William Slater’s will dated 1900-09-17.
Charles Lincoln Slater
Woodbine cottages,
Derby Road,
Hathern
Nr Loughborough
“terra-cotta worker”
Death 19th December
Church Walk, Eastwood
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John Paling surmises that that they were written by the solicitor as he continued to work on some ancillary family matter. It is likely that December 19th 1900 was the date of William’s death, two months after he signed his will.
Also the “terra-cotta worker” was the known trade of Charles Lincoln Slater.
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Ambassadors did not know William had a second wife, Harriett, at the time of his death. the first one died at the time of her giving birth to Charles Lincoln Slater.