George Henry Warren Sr.
George Henry Warren was an American laborer who died on June 22, 1923 while building All Souls Church, Unitarian Early life
George Henry Warren was born in 1874 in Richmond, Virginia, to former slaves Susan Cousins and Edward Warren. His father worked as a driver and his mother as a maid, his paternal grandmother was a slave and his paternal grandfather was a white man. George Warren was one of 16 children. His family most likely left Virginia in the late 1880s or early 1890s, and resettled in the northwest area of Washington, D.C., in a neighborhood called Tenleytown. While in D.C. he received the average education for a skilled mulatto male in the D.C. area, and met Sarah Sadie Bell and the two got married on August 24, 1904. The couple had two children: William Edward and Ernest Warren.Mid-life
Warren was an American veteran and had fought in World War I.Death
On June 22, 1923, Warren fell off of a scaffold while building the All Souls Church, and died from his injuries.
