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William Pinchback

Also Known As: "Major"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Caswell County, North Carolina, Colonial America
Death: October 02, 1848 (73)
Cruger, Holmes County, Mississippi, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of John Thomas Pinchback and Isabella Pinchback
Husband of Eliza Pinchback and Lavinia Pinchback
Father of Eliza Nesbit; Napoleon Pinchback; Mary Louisa Pinchback; Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback; Lucy Ludinda Oakley and 3 others
Brother of Ann Pinchback; Lydia Holman (Pinchback); Mary Pinchback; Martha Holman (Pinchback) and Sarah Holman (Pinchback)
Half brother of John Thomas Pinchback

Managed by: Joel Scott Cognevich
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About William Pinchback

The parents of P.B.S. Pinchback, second governor of Louisiana, were Eliza Stewart, a former slave, and William Pinchback, a white planter and his mother's former master, before he freed her. The couple lived together as husband and wife, but interracial marriage was forbidden by state law. 
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William Pinchback's Timeline

1775
April 12, 1775
Caswell County, North Carolina, Colonial America
1805
1805
Person, NC, United States
1806
1806
1809
1809
1811
August 3, 1811
NC, United States
1829
1829
1830
1830
1832
1832
1837
May 10, 1837
1848
October 2, 1848
Age 73
Cruger, Holmes County, Mississippi, United States