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Re: status of children born of slave mothers in 1858
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Jeff Southmayd <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 29 May 2012 16:38:07 -0400
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The 1870 US Census show an Edmonia Nelson (Black and 13 years of age), born in 1857 in Virginia, living with her father William Nelson (Black and 50 years of age), her mother Charlotte Nelson (Black and 49 years of age) and a brother Joseph Nelson (Black and 16 years of age), all living in Scott, Fauquier, Virginia.
 
The Washington Post of 28 Mar 1878 indicates a marriage license was issued to a Edmonia Nelson and Joshua Gunnell "...both of Virginia."
 
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> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 12:43:45 -0700
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> Subject: status of children born of slave mothers in 1858
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> I always thought that a child of a slave belonged to the slave owner - even if the child was father by a white man other than the owner.  In researching my great great grandmother Easter Nelson, I found that her first child, my great grandmother Edmonia was fathered by a relative of her owner's wife - Lewis Dulin.  I know amything is possible - but can it be that a child fathered by a white man in 1858 would be raised as a free child by relatives of the mother? I have found a census record for a child named Edmonia Nelson born in 1858 living with free mulatto Nelsons in the same county in 1870. Of course I have no evidence that this Edmonia Nelson is the same Edmonia that Easter Nelson bore, but is it possible?  
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