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Subject: Re: [KY-FREEDMEN] Finding a slave woman's maiden name -- how to?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 15:03:02 -0400
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With African american research anything is possible. Did you try the 1920 census, to see what she may have been listed as? If you know the home town.

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Subject: [KY-FREEDMEN] Finding a slave woman's maiden name -- how to?


HI:
I'm having a very hard time finding out the maiden name of my
great-great-grandmother TENER ENOCH of Alamance or Caswell County, North
Carolina. Her husband was BEDFORD ENOCH. I know nothing about her, who her
family was, nothing except that she married Bedford and had 4 children.

I got the death certificate of one of her daughters (1923) and the space for the
Maiden Name was filled out as "Unknown." I can't find a death certificate for
Tener even though she died in Ohio after 1920.

Now that got me to wondering if there were black freedmen who didn't adopt a
surname after Emancipation. I am speculating that Tener took her husband's
surname when they got married.

Is this possible? Let me know your experiences with this, especially with slave
women.

Thanks,
Kberry
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