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Sarah Breedlove was born in Delta, Louisiana. Her parents, Owen and Minerva were sharecroppers. She had one older sister and four older brothers. All of them, including her parents, were slaves on the Madison Parish plantation.
Sarah was born after the Emancipation Proclamation and was free.
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Sarah’s mother passed away when Sarah was only five. She died from cholera and her father remarried, but died shortly after.
After her parents’ deaths, Sarah lived with her oldest sister.
She met and Married Moses McWilliams at the age of fourteen to escape abuse by her brother-in-law.
Lelia McWilliams (A’Lelia Walker) was born to Moses and Sarah.
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When Sarah was twenty and her daughter was only two, Moses died. Sarah and her daughter moved to St. Louis where three of her brothers lived and worked as barbers. S