In 1870, everyone was free.  It would not surprise me at all to find a
former female slave's child living with her mother's family.

-- 
Elaine McHale
Librarian
Fairfax County (VA) Public Library


On 5/29/12, R. C. Solomon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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