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From: "Sandra Johnson" <>
Subject: [AL-AfricaAmer ] Fw: Alabama Slaves
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:36:29 -0500


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Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: Alabama Slaves


> Hi Denise,
> I don't have any wills to offer you, but the following excerpt from a
divorce
> agreement may be of some help to you;
>
> State of Alabama, Madison County, Article of Agreement made and entered
into
> this twentieth day of July 1848, between Thomas E. Hargrave of the said
> county and state of the first part and Susan Hargrave of the said county
and
> state of the other part, being the wife of the said Thomas E. Hargrave.
>
> "Now the said Thomas E. Hargraves gives the following property to wit; one
> negro girl named Lily about 14 years old and and one negro boy named
Chelce
> about 10 years old, also 2 horses and 1 carryall wagon to the said Susan
> Hargraves and my 2 children, that is, James K. Polk Hargraves and Laura
> Dallas Hargraves"
>
> Susan Hargraves went back to Marshall County, Mississippi in 1848 and then
> moved into Arkansas about 1858. In 1861, they were in the Poinsett County
> area of Arkansas. If Lily and Chelce were still with them during the Civil
> War, they may have stayed in Arkansas, but I really don't know. Being that
> they were children in 1848, they may have taken the Hargraves name on
> adulthood or after the war.
>
> I hope this is of some help to you or someone in your organization.
>
> Best Regards,
> James E. Hargraves

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