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Lynch Cemetery, 89-3 Summary Report, page 33
She was born on arsenal land. So were her parents. Her grandmother Luisa was a slave. Her grandfather was William Timmons (white). “We always stayed on his place. They rang bells when he died.”
Brothers and sisters of Lizzie Jacob Ward were:
JOINER NAME:
Bessie
Percy
Louise
Nina
Claudie
Gussie
Note that Pearlie Jacobs, as noted above in Beverly's notes, was “set aside, as a free nation”. That was probably due to the fact that the Jacobs family on early pre-arsenal lands came to Madison County as free a black or Mulatto family. Their status is further revealed in the census record shown on page 31 of this report, where the family of George W. Jacobs is enumerated as a Mulatto, designated by the “m” in the column after the gender notation. When the column is blank (the most common in the 1850 census, since blacks and Mulattos were not enumerated unless they were
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