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Funeral Services Today 5For Robert A. Pelham SRobert A. Pelham, 84, of 153 T street N.W., who died Saturday a night at his home, will be buried £ today in Harmony Cemetery, after t funeral services at 2 p.m. at the a Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. liMr. Pelham edited the Detroit o Plaindealer, one of the first Negro newspapers in the United States, t: from 1883 to 1891. He maintained a e news service for a number of years c here and ended his newspaper career g as editor of the Washington Tribune i from 1939 to 1941. pHe was bom in Petersburg, Va., E and moved to Detroit with his family at an early age. His first news- E paper experience was with the N Daily Post in Detroit, where he J worked for a number of years. V He held several State Jobs in o Michigan and then came here at the E turn of the century.At one time Mr. Pelham worked b at the Census Department. He had ^ visited every Republican convention ^ since the 1880s. .He is survived by his brother. \ Benjamin Pelham, former Detroit % county official; his widow, Mrs. \ Gabrielle Pelham; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy P. Beckley, Washing- * ton school teacher, and Mrs. Sarah e P. Sparks, New York attorney; a p son, Sergt. Robert B. Pelham, and tlt; four grandsons. s
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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Tue, Jun 15, 1943
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