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Martha Cooley trying to get her children released from John Nave

Martha Cooley, Testimony to J.M. Kelly, Notary Public, Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869, Registered Letters Received, Entered in Register 1, E – L, 1865. NMAAHC.FB.M999.

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March 26, 1865

Camp Nelson Ky March 26 1865 Personally appeared before me J M Kelley Notary Public in and for the County of Jessamine state of Ky Martha Cooley a woman of color who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say. I am a widow woman, my husband Simon Cooley was a Soldier in the 5th U.S.A. Calvalry and was killed at the Salt Works during Genl…

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