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Narraggansett Hotel, where Sissieretta met her husband

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Narraggansett Hotel, where Sissieretta met her husband

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At age fifteen Sissieretta had things on her mind other than music. That year she met David Richard Jones , a handsome mulatto from Baltimore who was working as a hotel bellman at the fashionable, eight-story Narragansett Hotel on the southwest corner of Dorrance and Weybosset Streets in Providence. The two were married 4 September 1883 by Baptist clergyman John C. Stockbridge. Although marriage records said Sissieretta was eighteen and David was twenty-four, she was actually fifteen and he was about twenty-one. 22 The young couple lived with Henrietta. The following spring, on 8 April 1884, seven months after their wedding, David and Sissieretta's daughter, Mabel, was born. Lee, Maureen D.. Sissieretta Jones: "The Greatest Singer of Her Race," 1868-1933 (Kindle Locations 291-297). University of South Carolina Press. Kindle Edition.

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Sissieretta's nickname "Black Patti" was a reference to a famous Italian singer, Adelina Patti

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Jones is buried in Grace Church Cemetery on Broad Street in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Jones is buried in Grace Church Cemetery on Broad Street in Providence, Rhode Island.

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(Current photo) Where Sissieretta worshipped in Providence.

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"I can never remember the time when I did not sing,." - Sissieretta Jones. July 4, 1896

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"I can never remember the time when I did not sing,." - Sissieretta Jones. July 4, 1896

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Known in her time as Black Patti

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A remarkable soprano voice and a commanding presence won personal success for Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (1869-1933).

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Jones billed as "The Greatest Singer of her Race"

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Jones billed as "The Greatest Singer of her Race"

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Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (1869-1933). The decorations she wears in this 1899 poster testify to her professional triumphs. In 1892, she performed at the White House for President Benjamin Harrison and in London before the Prince of Wales.

SOURCE: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri108.html

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Jones' Show is advertised as "The Greatest Colored Show on Earth"

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Jones' Show is advertised as "The Greatest Colored Show on Earth"