The 1900 Census for Kennebunk lists 7 Black "servants" residing with the family of Edwin and Mary Parsons and their two very young children. Jessie was one of those 7, and is listed as Black, age 33, single, POB: NC, occ: cook
Jessie Styles
Status (enslaved, free or both): free
Town: Kennebunk
Known dates: 1900
Jessie Styles - 1900 Kennebunk census
Cook and one of seven 'Black servants' in the household of Edwin Parsons
