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G.L. Yeargin (Ann Newsom)

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

March 14, 1884

Dear Editor - I wish to inquire
for my mother, sisters and brother.
Mother, Jane Newsom, belonged to
Randall Newsom, near Shelbyville,
Tenn. She was taken south by
Mr. Newsom when I was quite
small and I do not know to what
State they went. She carried three
children with her - Angeline, Kate
and Bud. I was given to Tilda
Wiggins as a…

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Jeff Frierson and Mary Burt reunited and remarried after 44-year separation

The Nashville American (Nashville, TN)

September 25, 1903

AFTER FORTY-FOUR YEARS

Jeff Frierson and Mary Burt Are Reunited
in Marriage.

Special Dispatch to The American.

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 24. --
A somewhat romantic marriage occurred
in colored circles last night. The
facts about it are these: Before the
Civil War, and in slave times, Jeff
Frierson, a slave belonging to the…

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