He died on Oct. 19th.

Incredibly, this hasn't even shown up at Wikipedia yet!

https://eji.org/news/daniel-smith-believed-to-be-the-last-child-of-enslaved-people-dies-at-90/

First quarter:

Daniel R. Smith, 90, passed away this week in Washington. He was one of the last remaining children of enslaved Black Americans, The Washington Post wrote in his obituary.

Mr. Smith’s father, Abram “A.B.” Smith, was born during the Civil War on a plantation in Massies Mill, Virginia, where he was enslaved at birth and suffered as “a boy laborer” at least through the 1870 census, before moving to Connecticut in his 20s.

He married Clara (Wheeler) Smith, a white woman with Scotch-Irish and Cherokee ancestry who was decades younger. Daniel, the fifth of the couple’s six children, was born in 1932, when his father was 70 and working as a janitor at a clock factory in Winsted, Connecticut.

When Daniel was barely five years old, he would sneak out of bed after dinner to listen as his father told his older siblings about the “whipping and crying post,” racial terror lynchings, and enslavers’ cruelly violent treatment of enslaved people.

“I remember hearing about two slaves who were chained together at the wrist and tried to run away,” Mr. Smith told the Post. “They were found by some vicious dogs hiding under a tree, and hanged from it.”...

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More obits:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22daniel+smith%22+90&rlz=1CAJMBU_enUS1030&ei=acRnY4TZCZTbptQPxvOQoA8&ved=0ahUKEwjEsfbl4Zn7AhWUrYkEHcY5BPQQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=%22daniel+smith%22+90&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQA0oECEEYAUoECEYYAFDVB1iEGGDwGWgBcAB4AIABgwGIAYACkgEDMC4ymAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

Lenona <lenona321@yahoo.com> wrote:
> He died on Oct. 19th.
>
> Incredibly, this hasn't even shown up at Wikipedia yet!

"Notability" may be an issue,in their contexts.
> https://eji.org/news/daniel-smith-believed-to-be-the-last-child-of-enslaved-people-dies-at-90/
>
> First quarter:
>
> Daniel R. Smith, 90, passed away this week in Washington. He was one of the
> last remaining children of enslaved Black Americans, The Washington Post
> wrote in his obituary.

How does "one of the last remaining" turn into "the last known"?

At his age there is certainly room for older ones to be alive.

> Mr. Smith?s father, Abram ?A.B.? Smith, was born during the Civil War on a plantation in Massies Mill, Virginia, where he was enslaved at birth and suffered as ?a boy laborer? at least through the 1870 census, before moving to Connecticut in his 20s.
>
>
> More obits:
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=%22daniel+smith%22+90&rlz=1CAJMBU_enUS1030&ei=acRnY4TZCZTbptQPxvOQoA8&ved=0ahUKEwjEsfbl4Zn7AhWUrYkEHcY5BPQQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=%22daniel+smith%22+90&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQA0oECEEYAUoECEYYAFDVB1iEGGDwGWgBcAB4AIABgwGIAYACkgEDMC4ymAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
>

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