George Henry Warren, Sr.
George Henry Warren (1874–1923) was a laborer who gained fame after dying on June 22, 1923 while building All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.) on its third building without his help the final building couldn't have been finished and they had to delay until 1924 before re-releasing the church to the public so the awe of his death would die down and there is currently a plaque in honor of him on its present location 16th Street, Northwest, D.C., He and his wife Sarah Sadie are both noted in the church directory book. George was also a member of Trinidad Baptist Church. He furthered his education at Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School (Washington, DC).
Early life
George Henry Warren was born on January 27, 1874 in Richmond, Virginia, to former slaves Susan Cousins (1838–1908) & Edward (Ned or Ed) Warren. His father worked as a Horse Driver and his mother a maid, his father's mother was a mulatto slave and his father's father was his white slave owner George Gilmer Minor (1813–1880) from Albemarle County who apparently lead [...] relationship with Lucy while married to a white woman with children, And his mother was the daughter of a mulatto woman Amy and a mulatto man called Mr. Cousins. George Warren was one of 16 children and he was the eighth. His family left Virginia in the late 1880s, and resettled in the Northwest area of Washington, D.C., while in D.C. he received the Average education for a skilled Mulatto male in the D.C. area, and met Sarah Sadie Bell (1889–1968) and they married on August 24, 1904 in Washington, D.C. and the couple had two children: William Edward (1911–2003) and Ernest Warren (1915–1944).
Mid life and death
In, 1917 he left for World War I and when he returned in 1918 he was never the same because of the torments then called 'colored' Negroes received. In, 1920 he got the job building All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.), and fell off a scaffold on June 22, 1923 while building it.