Results for subject term "Chesley Pettijohn House - 39 Paige Street <br />
On July 5, 1905, Frank E. Paige deeded the house that was to become the last house on the Paige Street cul-de-sac, for $850 to Chesley Pettijohn, a member of an African American family whose daughter Bessie later married into the African-American Bias family and thereby acquired the abutting property to the east, at 44 Beston. The 1900 Census lists Chesley Pettyjohn (born 1847, age 52) as head of household, living on South Pleasant Street with his wife, Ella (born 1858, age 42), and 6 children ranging in age from 16 to 3 months – Bessie who was to marry into the Bias family was 13 in 1900 – and both parents and children were born in Virginia except for the baby. Chesley was a day laborer and his children were at school. The family is listed as “Black” in this 1900 Census, but “mulatto” in the 1910 Census which has them on Paige Street with four children at home: Ella, Theodore, Alice and Gladys, age 23, 19, 14 and 10). The 1910 Census lists Chesley Pettyjohn as a janitor at a Society House and daughter Ella (28), a cook in a private family. By the 1930 Census, Chesley and Ella are living only with Alice, who is listed as a housekeeper and the three are racially designated “Negro”<br />
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