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“In addition to the one hundred acres…”
Details of the farm of Lorenzo Jackson come from a Productions of Agriculture schedule for 1880, retrieved from the website for the Freedmen’s Bureau records, associated with the National Museum of African American History & Culture. I am assuming the profit gained from “Forrest Products” would have been sold to the nearest dispensary able to make use of them.
“The census counter…”
See “…Lorenzo and his daughter…,” above. It would be impossible to determine the exact date the census recorder visited the home—I have placed it in the middle of 1869 because of the inconsistency in the date of Anarcha’s death, as documented below.
“He put her in the ground…”
The image of the grave included in the printed book is a photograph I took on the first time I visited the site, a scene described in the introduction to this book. There are no other graves nearby. I later learned that Elizabeth Lee had also recorded Anarcha’s death in a book of death records, but she had not connected the “Ankey” of the death record (married to “Lorenzo”) to the “Annacay” of the gravestone (married to “Laurenzi”). She likely also connected the gravesite to the death records for Lizzie and an unnamed infant of Lorenzo and Anarcha (see “…to be called Lizzie…” and “…a baby girl, but she died”).
I do not know who placed the stone there. It may have been John Enoch Mason, who signed Lorenzo’s will as a witness. If so, then Anarcha’s grave was marked by a great-great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson.
“…and a bloody cough.”
See “…could tell from her cough…,” above.
Anarcha’s death record, as included in the printed book gives June 17, 1870, as the date of her death, and her age as forty-five. The gravestone claims she died on June 27, 1869, and that she was forty-eight years old.
“…John E. Mason…”
See “…liked Lorenzo very much,” above.
MINOR, John B. (1941), Report of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Vol. 24, Richmond, VA, Richmond Press, inc., p. 81.
