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AfriGeneas Slave Research Forum
1873 Columbia SC
In Response To: Re: You may find clues/leads here - PERCIVAL ()
Hi. Many leads to follow here. My ggf apparently had 7 siblings who were all living in Columbia, SC in 1873. This is from a data base you can search at Ancestry.com called the Freedman's Bank Records. I am not sure how accurate any of the information is, but you should come up with the record and then be able to look for names that are in your line. By 1880, my ggf was in NYC but I have never heard that any siblings came with him; in that census he lived in a rooming/boarding house in Manhattan. By 1900 he was married and living on Long Island, where he spent the rest of his years. Stay in touch if you find that your ancestors are among the siblings listed on this bank deposit. You can get a 14-day free trial at Ancestry.com (or go to a Mormon church family life center or a public library that subscribes.) For the benefit of all reading this I will list the siblings: Wilson (my ggf) who was 31 at the time; John, William, Edward, Mortimer, Elenor (sic), and Hester. Their ages are not given. Their father was listed as Spencer (deceased by that date) and mother Sophy. Sophy by that date had apparently remarried to a man named John Kyer. John and Sophia Kyer show up still living in Columbia, SC, with two young women listed as 'daughters' - could be John's children from earlier marriage, or Sophy's with John; in either case not Percival.
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