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Jordan Cemetery, 45-1 Summary Report, page 15

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This page of the 1880 record shows both Moses Sr. and Jr. in one household. According to this data, Moses Sr. was born about 1834 in Virginia of parents both born in Virginia. (The “Virginia” data has been truncated in order to have a readable-sized image here. The complete page is to be found on the CD-ROM for this cemetery that was supplied to the Army Environmental Management offices.) Martha, the wife of Moses Sr. and the mother of Moses Jr., cannot be researched further, due to there being no record of their marriage in the Madison County indexes. Of course, their marriage was probably not recorded anyhow, due to their union probably being effected on a slave-owning plantation before the Civil War. That supposition is supported by the age of their child Rufus, shown as 19 in 1880, meaning that he was born to the couple around 1861, before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued or enforced. The 1870 census gives more details of this family: 15 - (1915)    

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