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Jordan - Jacobs Cemetery, 54-1 Summary Report, page 29

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The above images of old documents can be viewed for clarity at 200% on a computer, when using the CD-ROM versions of this report. The CD-ROMs provided to the Army offices have many more of the researched files as digital images to support the statements in this Summary Report. This cemetery no doubt has many more families represented in its graves, but only the Jacobs family has a marker to point to them today. Their story has been most unusual for a black or mulatto family of the Old South, indicating strength of character that persevered through harsh times prior to the Civil War (as “free people of color”) and the extension of those harsh times into the segregation and discrimination times after the Civil War. The Jacobs families had a large measure of success through all circumstances, and they are to be highly respected for their surmounting of social obstacles. Prepared by John P. Rankin, June 23, 2002; revised September 19, 2005 29 - (2116)    

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