fauquier virginia genealogy
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Did My Black Forebear Have Kids With a White Employer?
Dear Professor Gates:My fourth great-grandmother Delilah Yates was listed as a “domestic servant” in a white household on the 1870 Virginia census in Marshall-Farquhar County along with three of her children, the younger two who are listed as mulatto (Delilah and the oldest child are identified as black). My third great-grandfather Daniel Yates was also a son of…