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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 221
The 1850 Madison County census showing Amanda Jacobs and her siblings.
The question has not been answered about the possible relationship between Pearlie Jacobs and Amanda Jacobs; however, an even more significant issue remains to be resolved??"records indicate Burrell Jacobs was a free man prior to the Civil War. Amanda Jacobs was Burrell's daughter, and would be the right age to have been the one who had Jack Horton's children. It would seem that if Burrell were free, then his daughter would have been free. However, in 1979, Ovoy Horton said:
Amanda Horton was purchased as a slave and came to the United States sold to a White slave owner, Jack Horton. Even though slavery had been abolished [by the English?] by the time Amanda completed the journey from North Africa, around Portugal and along the coast of North Carolina, Jack Horton took her anyway. He sat her aside in a little house on 40 acres of land, which was intended for her in the very beginning. This settlement was in the Pond Beat community, which presently houses the Army Missile Command and NASA at Redstone Arsenal. (First Horton Family Reunion, 1979:6, as found in Shogren, Turner, and Perroni 1989). [This researcher questions Amanda being born in Africa.]
Apparently, a Horton descendant also sought to learn more of the relationship between Jack Horton and Amanda Jacobs. Charles Burns is deceased. A folder held in the
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