Levi Jones; October 7, 1844
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Subject of Research
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Levi Jones; October 7, 1844
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Story
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Levi Jones, a free black man, purchases 14 acres from Elizabeth Baggot in what is now Green Valley to be near his enslaved wife Sarah Ann Gardener. Plantation owner, Alexander Frazier, enslaves Sarah and their growing family. After the Civil War, the family helps develop Nauck/Green Valley as an African American community.
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People
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Levi Jones
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Sarah Ann Gardener
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Elizabeth Baggot
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Alexander Frazier
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Place
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Green Valley