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From: "Del Jupiter" <>
Subject: Re: [ALDALLAS-L] Former Dallas Co., slaves
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:17:02 -0400
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Thanks for sharing your information to help African American researchers. I
hope you make contact with Reuben Woods descendants.

Del
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Subject: Re: [ALDALLAS-L] Former Dallas Co., slaves


> I'm writing concerning REUBEN WOODS, an African-American who once was a
slave
> owned by Thomas Woods [my g-g-g-grandfather] of Dallas County, Alabama,
and
> named by Thomas in his will in 1831. I believe that Reuben Woods died
after
> 1880 in Dallas County, and was survived by several children and
> grandchildren. I have researched interesting information about Reuben
> Woods (in family wills, correspondence, legal documents, census records,
> etc.), and would like to share this information with any of his
descendants
> who might be interested in it. Reuben was last listed in the 1880 Dallas
> County census at age 63 -- his wife's name was Mary (age 53). Two
daughters,
> Ann (15) and Sallie (13) were listed with them in 1880, Reuben had
other
> other children -- Mahala, Richard, Tebe, Maggie, and Peter. One of his
older
> daughters, probaboly Mahala, married into the Taggart family. Reuben was
> long remembered by the Thomas Woods descendants. The information I have
> found is information I think they will want to keep, in honor of Reuben
> Woods. Please contact me if you know how I may share this information
with
> known descendants of Reuben Woods.
>
> Robert E Parrott, Knoxville, TN.
>
>
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