Leonardtown store ledger, 1884-1885

Object/Artifact

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St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

Name/Title

Leonardtown store ledger, 1884-1885

Entry/Object ID

2012.003.0001

Description

This piece is a large heavy ledger, unfortunately devoid of identifying information beyond the names of the customers. The book is 12 15/16h x 8 1/4w x 1 1/2"d. It has typical decoration: brown buckram cover with Greek keys and other motifs printed on the buckram, top and bottom panels of dark red leather with gold printed Greek key motifs, and a 2 1/8" band around the spine right in the middle of the cover. The other spine panels are black with decorative gold stamping. The top spine panel says LEDGER in gold. The ledger is quite dirty and quite damaged on all the corners and especially the spine, partly from use and partly from vermin. There is an index of entries, numbered pp. 1-59 are full page accounts, pp. 349-383 are half page entries, all other pages blank. There are occasional lost pages that appear to be deliberate. There are scribbled figures on the last pages. Index tab A Abell, Wallis; Abell, Stephen; Abell, Henry of Alec; Abell, Chas. P; Abell, Alec of [?]; Abell, Enoch B. Index tab B Blackistone, John; Butler, Dominick; Brown, W. H.; Brown, Mrs. James; Brown, Othello; [Burch?], Jer. D.; Bond, Benedick; Blakiston, Caroline; Blackistone, Frank Index tab C Carpenter, Wallis; Coode, D.; Cooper, Thomas; Chesley, W. F.; Combs, W. F.; Coud, George; Combs, R. C.; Combs, Dr. Chas.; Carberry, Cliff; Cecil, John F.; Corporation Index tab D Dillahay, Frank Sr. Index tab E Evans, [?] A.; Evans, W. H.; Enterprise Index tab F Ford Bros.; Ford, J. Frank; Fenwick, John F.; Fenwick, Allie; Foxwell, Capt. Ben; Foxwell, Thomas F. Index tab G Greenwell, Ford; Guy, W. Peter; Graves, Mrs. Lucretia; Greenwell, James B.; Graves, James; Goldsborough, Willie; Greenwell, Joseph; Guffney, Thomas; Goldsborough, Mrs. Sophia; Graves, Wm. F.; Goldsborough, L. G.; Guy, John H.; Garner, Richard [?]; Goldsborough, [Tuck?] Index tab H Holmes, Mrs. W. C.; Harris, B. G.; Heard, Chris.; Hayden, Allie; Hayden, Chas. of Wm.; Hayden, Chris V.; Hebb, Alec; Hazell, [James?]; Hutchinson, Herbert; Hutchinson, Lewis; Hayden, W. H.; Heard, James A.; Hebb, Benjamin; Heard, J. R. Index tab J Johnson, Joseph S.; Jarboe, Edmund; Jones, Walter; Jones, [?] H.; Jarboe, A. D.; Jones, Martin; Jarboe, Warren; Joy, Weller; Jones, [Lany?] Index tab K King, John F.; Key, Jos. H.; Knott, John H. Index tab L Leach, Johnn; Lee, Edmund; Leach, Warren Index tab M Moore, Jonathan; Moore, Herbert F.; Medley, James; Miles, Henry; Morgan, Philip; Mattingley, James H.; Magill, Robt. Abell; Mattingley, Zach. Index tab N Norris, Margaret; Nash, B. S.; Neale, Mrs. Mary A.; Norris, Benjamin; Nelson, John; Norris, Chas. F.; Noble, Stephen Index tab P Pilkerton, James I. [or J.]; Perry, W. F.; Plowden, Douglas; Pope, [?]; Payne, Geo. H.; Pope, W. F. Index tab R Reeder, John H.; Reeder, Henry; Raley, W. R. L.; Raley, Zach.; Raley, Clyde; Russell, Chas. F.; Russell, Edgar Index tab S St. Mary's Co[unty]; Spalding, Dr. S. E.; Spalding, Harry; Stone, James; Stone, Peter; Smith, I. Frank Index tab T Thompson, Lewis C. Index tab V Vaughn, Maurice H.; Van Reswick, John Index tab W Wathen, Mrs. [Jonathan or John]; Wathen, John H.; Wilkinson, J. [Mike?] Index tab Y Yates, I. Frank; Yates, F. Robert; Yates, Hayden P. 1 Mrs. W. C. Holmes beginning October 16, 1884 with the amount at the bottom of the page, $314.25, transferred to p. 19 P. 2 Joseph S. Johnson beginning October 16, 1884 with the amount at the bottom of the page, $234.77, transferred to p. 31 P. 3 Margaret Norris beginning October 30, 1884 with the amount at the bottom of the page, $491.14, transferred to p. 34 P. 4 St. Mary's County beginning October 15, 1884 with a note farther down the page, "Amt from WB 400" P. 5 Wallis Abell beginning October 16, 1884, with the account, $22.35, paid on August 9, 1885 P. 6 Jonathan Moore beginning October 11, 1884 with the amount farther down the page, $102.50, credited with $114.52 by June 1885 P. 7, top Ford Greenwell beginning July 28, 1884 and ending February 7, 1885. In August 1884 he paid $25 toward an account of $53 P. 7, bottom Wallis Carpenter beginning October 23, 1884 and ending November 1, 1884 P. 8 I. Frank Yates beginning October 1884 with his account settled and closed in May 1885 Small sheet of scratch paper between pages P. 9 B. S. Nash beginning October 11, 1884 and ending in 1885 with a balance of $99.95. On three occasions, he paid a little on his account P. 10 Ford Bros. beginning November 5, 1884 and carrying on to April 1885 when the account was moved to p. 57 P. 11 John [N.?] Reeder beginning November 8, 1884 until May 1885. He made one payment to his account P. 12 Herbert F. Moore beginning on November 9, 1884, with the account moved to p. 48 in February 1885. He made two small payments on his account P. 13 James Medley beginning November 10, 1884, with the account moved to p. 33 in January 1885 P. 14 Mrs. Jonathan Wathen began her account on November 12, 1884 and settled in March 1885 P. 15 James Cooper beginning in November 1884 and a final entry in June 1885. The credit entry is not legible. P. 16 Robert C. Combs beginning in November 18, 1884 and settling on January 29, 1887 P. 17 Dr. S. E. Spalding beginning on November 22, 1884 with a final entry on May 1, 1885. He made one payment on his account P. 18 Benjamin Norris beginning on November 23, 1884 with his account settled in January 1888 P. 19 Mrs. M. C. Holmes beginning on November 24, 1884 with the account carried over to p. 32 P. 20 Mrs. Lucretia Graves beginning November 24, 1884 and ending April 1885. One small payment was made to the account. The bottom line on the right is not legible. Sheet of notes of more recent vintage between the pages P. 21 W. F. Chesley beginning on November 26, 1884 and ending April 29, 1885. Mr. Chesley often paid toward his account in eggs and meat P. 22 W. F. Perry beginning November 27, 1884 and ending April 23, 1885 P. 23 W. F. Combs beginning on November 30, 1885 and settled in March 1885 P. 24 James [?] Greenwell beginning in December 1884 and settled in September 1885 P. 25 I. Robert Yates beginning in December 4, 1884 with the account carried forward to p. 56 P. 26 Hayden Yates beginning December 8, 1884 and ending April 1885 P. 27 John Van Resnick beginning December 16, 1884 and settled March 13, 1886 P. 28 I. Frank Ford beginning December 16, 1884. Many people made entries on this account which was settled in March 1886 P. 29 John F. Fenwick beginning December 19, 1884 bringing over a large balance. The entries end on April 2, 1885 P. 30 Mrs. James Brewer beginning December 4, 1884 with entries May 5, 1885 P. 31 Joseph S. Johnson beginning December 30, 1884 with entries ending February 22, 1885 P. 32 Mrs. W. E. Holmes beginning January [1885] with the account moved to p. 54 in March P. 33 James Medley beginning January 8, 1885 with a large carryover balance and ending in April of that year P. 34 Margaret Norris beginning January 12, 1885 with the account carried to p. 53 in March P. 35 James H. Mattingley Beginning in June 1885 with the account settled in 1886 P. 36 Othello Brown beginning in January 1885 and ending in March P. 37 George H. Payne beginning January 31, 1885 with his account settled in August 1886 P. 38 James Stone beginning January 3, 1884 who paid off his account with the proceeds of his wheat crop P. 39 John L. Bowles beginning in February 1885 with entries ending in April. He made one small payment toward his account P. 40 Capt. Benjamin Foxwell beginning in February of an unknown year. A different hand entered many credits from 1888-1890. Between the pages was a small multi-folded sheet, with some material missing, of the account of Cora Fenwick from 1888-1891. The sheet is protected in a mylar sleeve. P. 41 M. F. Pope beginning in March 1885. He settled his account by working for the store. P. 42 J. Mike Wilkinson beginning February 10, 1885 and running to May 5, 1885, at which time the account was settled P. 43 William I. Graves beginning February 22, 1885. The account was settled in January 1886. P. 44 Joseph S. Johnson beginning in February 22, 1885. Mr. Johnson made one payment toward his substantial account. P. 45 John H. Guy beginning February 26, 1885 with entries ending in April of that year. P. 46 Thomas F. Foxwell beginning February 28 of an unknown year. The account was paid in cash on April 23. P. 47 Joe H. Key beginning in March 1884 with the account settled in 1886 P. 48 Herbert F. Moore beginning February 28, 1885. The account may have been closed in February of 1886, but most of the words are illegible P. 49 Charles F. Norris beginning March 1885 with entries into April. The account was settled in 1886 P. 50 St. Mary's Enterprise beginning in March 1884 with the account settled for $12.49. P. 51 Charles F. Russell beginning in March 6, 1885 with entries ending in April with a settlement by note P. 52 Zach Mattingly beginning March 7, 1885 and a final entry on April 28 of that year. P. 53 Margaret Norris beginning March 9, 1885 with $635 forwarded to p. 58 in late April. No payments were made to the account. P. 54 Mrs. [M or W] E. Holmes beginning March 5, 1885. Her account was settled in early May. P. 55 John H. Guy One entry for March 30, 1885 P. 56 [I or J] R. Yates beginning April 2, 1885 with his account settled at an unknown date P. 57 Ford Bros. beginning April 11, 1885 with the account settled in August of that year P. 58 Margaret Norris beginning April 25, 1885 with a final entry on an illegible date P. 59 John H. Knott with a single entry on April 26, 1885. In January 1887, Mr. Knott brought a cow to the storekeeper that was valued at $25 against the account of $43 P. 60-348 are empty P. 349 and following are set up as half sheet accounts P. 349 top Maurice H. Vaughn has a single entry in October 1884 that was paid off in April 1885 P. 349 center Clyde Raley had a single entry in June 1885 with the account was paid off in December 1885 P. 349 bottom W. Peter Guy beginning November 4, 1884 with his account paid off in January of an unnamed year P. 350 top D. Coode beginning in November 1884 with a final entry in 1886. Peter Guy was somehow involved in a payment on the account P. 350 bottom B. G. Harris beginning November 12, 1884 with a final entry in December of that year P. 351 top Mrs. Mary Neale beginning July 20, 1884 with the balance transferred to p. 79. Written across the account in pencil "Settled in full Sept. 87" P. 351 bottom John Blakistone beginning in November 1884 and a final entry in March 1885 P. 352 top Harry Reeder beginning in November 1884 with the account settled in March 1886 P. 352 bottom Dominick Butler beginning in December 1884 and settled in September 1885 P. 353 top James F. Pilkerton with a single entry in November 1884 P. 353 bottom John or Jonathan Leach beginning in November 1884 with the account transferred to a p. 232, but not in this book P. 354 top W. H. Brown beginning in November 1884 and settled in July 1885 P. 354 bottom John F. King beginning in November 1884 with a final entry in April 1885 P. 355 top Charles Heard beginning in November 1884 and settled in February 1887 P. 355 center Edmund Jarboe beginning November 22, 1884 and settled in November 1886 P. 355 bottom Edward Lee with a single entry in December 1884 P. 356 top John Nelson beginning in November 1884 and a final entry in January 1885 P. 356 bottom Allie Hayden beginning in November 1884 with a final entry in April 1885 P. 357 top W. R. L. Raley beginning November 28, 1884 with the account settled in April 1885 P. 357 center Douglas Plowden with a single entry in 1884 P. 357 bottom Charley Hayden with a single entry in 1884 P. 358 top Harry Spalding beginning in December 1884 and settled at an unknown date P. 358 bottom Henry Miles beginning December 2, 1884 with a final entry in April 1885 P. 359 top George Coad with a single entry in December 1884 that was settled at an unknown date P. 359 center E. H. Jones with a single entry in December 1884 P. 359 bottom John H. Wathen with two entries in 1884 and 1885 P. 360 top Walter Jones with a few entries in late 1884 and early 1885 P. 360 center J. A. Evans with a single entry in December 1884 that he settled the next July P. 360 bottom James Graves with a single entry in December 1884 that was settled the following July P. 361 top Zach Raley with a single entry in December 1884 that was settled in April 1885 P. 361 center Warren Leach Had two brief entries P. 361 bottom Willie Goldsborough of Frank had an entry in December 1884, a credit in march 1885, and another entry in April 1885 P. 362 top W. H. Hayden had only two entries and his account was settled in March 1885 P. 362 bottom Philip Morgan bought something on December 19, 1884 and returned it to settle his account P. 363 top Thomas Guffney beginning in December 1884 with a final entry in April 1885 P. 363 bottom Joseph Greenwell had only two entries in 1884 and 1885 P. 364 top Charley Hayden had a single entry and the account was settled P. 364 bottom A. D. Jarboe Had a single entry in December 1884 that was settled in May 1885 P. 365 top Allie Fenwick entries began in June 1884. A small part of his account was paid by C. A. Goldsborough. P. 365 bottom Alec Hebb had a few entries in 1884 and one credit in October 1885 P. 366 top Martin Jones had two entries in 1885 and his account was settled on an unknown date P. 366 center James Hazell had a single entry in June 1885 that was paid off in January 1886 P. 366 bottom Herbert Hutchinson had a single entry in 1885 P. 367 top Dr. Charles combs had two entries in 1884 that he settled in January 1886 P. 367 bottom Lewis Hutchinson had a single entry in 1885 P. 368 top Captain Jeremiah Pope had a single entry in 1885 that was settled in an illegible fashion P. 368 bottom Cliff A. Carberry had a few entries in 1884 and one credit P. 369 top Frank Dillahay Jr. had one entry in February 1885 the he settled in May P. 369 bottom Mrs. Sophia Goldsborough beginning in February 1885 and ending with a transfer of the account to a different ledger P. 370 top Lewis C. Thompson beginning February 1885 with a final entry in May of that year P. 370 center Peter Stone had a single entry in February 1885 that was settled in August P. 370 bottom Zach Goldsborough had a single entry in April 1885 P. 371 top W. H. Evans had a single entry and multiple credits in 1884 and 1886 P. 371 bottom John F. Cecil had a few entries in 1885 and one credit P. 372 top Benedick [sic] Bond beginning in March 1885 with his account settled in July P. 372 bottom [S? L? J?] G. Goldsborough beginning February 23, 1885. In October, he paid off part of his account with fodder. P. 373 top Warren Jarboe paid off his small account by work P. 373 bottom Stephen Abell paid off his account with hay P. 374 top Walter Joy beginning in February 1885 and paid off with cash in April 1886 P. 374 bottom [?] Jones beginning in February 1884 and paid off in May P. 375 top Corporation beginning in March 1885 and settled in January 1886 P. 375 bottom Caroline Blakistone small account was paid off by work in October 1885 P. 376 top Edgar Russell had a few entries beginning in March 1885, but no credits P. 376 bottom Henry Abell of [Alec?] Had a single entry in march 1885 and no credits P. 377 James A. Heard beginning in March 1885 and settled in July by cash P. 377 bottom Benjamin Hebb had a single entry in March 1885 and paid part of his account in cash Pages 377 to 380 are loose in the book because the staples rusted P. 378 top Chas. B. Abell had a single entry in March 1885 P. 378 bottom Alec Abell of [?] settled his single entry account with cash in September 1885 P. 379 top Mrs. Mary A. Neale beginning in March 1885 with partial payment in June P. 379 center Robert A. Magill had one entry in April 1885 P. 379 bottom Richard H. Garner had one entry in April 1885 that he settled in September with cash P. 380 top Frank Blakistone had two entries in 1885 and settled in March 1886. Part of his account was paid by J. F. Ford P. 380 bottom Stephen Noble had one entry in April 1885 P. 381top [J?] Frank Smith had two entries in 1885 P. 381 bottom Dr. John J. Spalding had two entries in 1885 which he settled in March 1886 P. 382 top J. Robert Heard settled his account in June 1885 P. 382 bottom Enoch B. Abell ran up a $68.50 account in 1886 and 1887 P. 383 top E. B. Abell settled his account on an unknown date Pp. 384-548 have no entries

Collection

Miscellaneous Ledgers and Bound Volumes

Made/Created

Date made

1884 - 1885

Dimensions

Height

12-3/4 in

Width

8-1/4 in

Depth

1-1/2 in

Location

Container

Leonardtown Ledger Box

Shelf

Rack 02, Shelf 4

Rack

Rack 02

Wall

South wall

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall

Container

Leonardtown Ledger Box

Shelf

Rack 02, Shelf 4

Rack

Rack 02

Wall

South wall

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall

Container

Hodges/Turner Farm Ledger

Shelf

Rack 12, Shelf 2

Rack

Rack 12

Wall

East wall

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall
Tudor Hall

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Abell, Alec

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Abell, Charles P.

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Abell, Enoch Booth

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Abell, Henry3

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Abell, Stephen

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Abell, Wallis

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Blakistone, Caroline

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Blakistone, Frank

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Blakistone, John

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Bond, Benedict H.

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Bowles, John L.

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Brewer, James2 (Mrs.)

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Brown, Othello

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Brown, W. H.

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Butler, Dominick

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Carberry, Cliff A.

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Carpenter, Wallis

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Cecil, John F.

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Chesley, W. F.

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Coad, George

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Combs, Charles

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Combs, Robert C.

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Combs, William Frank

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Cooper, James2

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Dillahay, Francis

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Evans, J. A.

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Evans, W. H.

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Fenwick, Aloysius Francis (1817-1887)

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Fenwick, Cora

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Fenwick, John F.2

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Ford, J. Frank

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Foxwell, Benjamin Irving

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Foxwell, Thomas F.

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Garner, Richard H.

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Goldsborough, I. G.

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Goldsborough, Sophia

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Goldsborough, William

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Graves, James

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Graves, Lucretia

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Graves, William

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Graves, William I.

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Greenwell, Ford

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Greenwell, James E.

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Greenwell, Joseph4

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Guffney, Thomas

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Guy, John H.

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Guy, W. Peter

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Hayden, Aloysius

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Hayden, Charles2

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Hayden, William H.

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Hazell, James

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Heard, Charles

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Heard, J. Robert

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Heard, James A.

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Hebb, Alec

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Hebb, Benjamin

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Holmes, W. C. (Mrs.)

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Hutchinson, Lewis

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Jarboe, Alexander

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Jarboe, Edmund

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Jarboe, Warren

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Johnson, Joseph S.

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Jones, E. H.

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Jones, Lamy

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Jones, Martin

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Jones, Walter

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Joy, Weller

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Key, Joseph Harris

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King, John F.

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Knott, John H.

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Leach, John2

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Lee, Edward

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Magill, Robert A.

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Mattingley, James H.

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Mattingley, Zachariah2

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Medley, James

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Miles, Henry2

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Moore, Herbert F.

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Moore, Jonathan

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Morgan, Philip

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Nash, B. S.

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Neale, Mary A.

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Nelson, John

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Noble, Stephen

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Norris, Benjamin

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Norris, Charles F.

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Norris, Margaret2

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Payne, George H.

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Perry, William F.

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Pilkerton, James J.

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Plowden, Douglas

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Pope, Jeremiah

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Pope, M. I.

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Raley, Clyde

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Raley, Zachariah T.

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Reeder, Harry A.

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Reeder, John H.

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Russell, Charles I.

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Russell, Edgar

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Smith, J. Frank

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Spalding, Harry F.

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Spalding, John L.

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Spalding, S. E.

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Stone, James

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Stone, James J.

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Stone, Peter

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Thompson, Lewis C.

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Van Reswick, John

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Vaughan, Maurice H.

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Wathen, John H.

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Wathen, Jonathan (Mrs.)

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Wilkinson, J. Mike

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Yates, Hayden

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Yates, J. Frank

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Yates, J. Robert