DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Toussant Delany, 9 Jul 1903
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 Toussant L'Onverture Delany died at his home in Nashville, TN 9 
July 1903 he was the eldest son of Major Martin R. Delany. In his early 
manhood he taught school and was also a photographer and having passed the 
half century mark and fallen asleep.. Besides a widow, four brothers and a 
sister survive, viz: St. Cryprian, Chicago; F. Soulouque, Louisville, 
Placido R., St. Louis; Miss Hallie A. the youngest; and A. Dumas of 
Arkansas. Their late father was the first colored officer of the US Army 
commissioned by President Lincoln in Jan. 1865.