Henry Cato and David McRee's Freedmen Bureau Labor Contract - 1866


Rachel Adams
b. 1840 in Mississippi
Wife of Mingo Adams
Listed on Cato and McRee's Labor Contract
Photo Courtsey of Cynthia Crump, Great Granddaughter

"On 15th o' May Marse sed ye are free but effen ye want to stay on heah wid me I'll pay ye same as if had neber been under bondage. Mammy tuk me wid her over to the Fergerson's an' we lived an' wuked there fo' a long time."Robert Young, Ex-Slave of Gus Watkins in Copiah County, MS

SONS OF MINGO & RACHAEL ADAMS

Calvin Adams
1865 - 1917
Husband of Maggie Lynch
Photo Courtsey of Cynthia Crump, Granddaughter
Harvey Adams
1878-1949
Husband of Mary Louise Sims & Mary Jane Johnson
Photo Courtsey of Ed Adams, Grandson

Freedmen Labor Contract - List of Freedmen
Planter: Henry Cato and David McRee
Plantation: D. McRee
County: Copiah
Date: January 01, 1866
Microfiche Number: 49-007
Extracted by Linda Durr Rudd

NAME

MINGO ADAMS
RACHEL ADAMS
TONY COLEMAN
ANDERSON FRANKLIN
PHYLLIS FRANKLIN
JOHN ERAIN?
ANN REDRICK
LUKE REDRICK
SAMUEL REDRICK
WILLIS FERRILL
MARIAH FERRILL
LYDIA HOLMES
HARRIETT THOMAS
LEVIE NEWEL, daughter of Jack Newel
JACK NEWEL, father of Levi

Freedmen Labor Contracts - List of Freedmen
Planter: Henry Cato and David McRee
Plantation: McRee's Farm
County: Copiah
Microfiche Number: 49-204

NAME

ELY BARNES
ENOCH BARNES
STEPHEN ALLEN
DORCUS ALLEN
OMA THOMPSON
PENNE THOMPSON

SOURCES

Microfiche Number: 49-007 and 49-204
Slave Narrative of Robert Young
Records are found at Mississippi Department of Archives and History

The Cato Family's Slaves of Copiah and Jefferson Counties, MS

Remembering Their Names