Next Week: Emma needs more than six months.
Monday, January 27, 2014
The Emma Ferrer Letters, Part 3: The Application
The application Emma completed for her children to be placed in the Alabama Methodist Orphanage offers much in the way of genealogical proof. In addition to the years of each child's birth, the full name of their mother and father is also included. We also learn that the children's grandmother (presumably Emma's mother, Mary E. Johnson) is still living, but unable to support them. Sadly, on the line for Value of orphan's property , present or perspective, Emma wrote, nothing.
Next Week: Emma needs more than six months.
Next Week: Emma needs more than six months.
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