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The Freedmen's Bureau Online

List of Children received at the Orphans Home Asylum 
from the Rost Home Colony, December 21, 1866 

Adiluie Lyons, 9 
Susan Green, 15 
Louisa Simms, 13 
Baylor Duncan, 10 
Lewis Johnson, 9 
Sam Kevis, 7 
Peter Washington, 10 
Edward Green, 10 

List of Orphans from Rost Home Colony furnished 
by (name illegible) on the 24th of December, 1866
 

William Duncan, 8 
Isaac Shorts, 10 
Louis Johnson, 8 
Sam Kevis, 6 
Peter Washington, 10 
Edward Green, 8 
Hannah Johnson, 9 
Catharine Shorts, 10 
Odele Davis, 10 (female) 
Coble Davis, 8, (female) 
Fenguina Lyons, 12, (female) 
Susan Green, 10 

List of Orphans in Orphan Asylum, 
New Orleans, Louisiana, December 31,1866 

Lucy Albert, 15 
Mary Ann Smith, 3 
Mary Ann Edwards, 8 
Henry Banks, 5 
Alice Bertell, 14 
Beertries Bertell, 4 
Clarence Bertell, 7 
Rodelph Bertell, 8 
Leonora Bertell, 12 
Thomas Boyd, 16 
James Brooks, 4 
Lucy Clark, 4 
Martha Coleman, 16 
Edward Darcy, 8 
Peter Dennison, 14 
Sam Doyle, 9 
Billy Dunton, 14 
Harry Fisher, 5 
John Fox, 10 
Allison Furnick, 9 (male) 
George Green, 11 
Susan Green, 12 
Edward Green, 14 
Emma Green, 14 
Cecelia Green, 5 
Harry Green, 7 
Zeno Green, 7 
Maurice Green, 10 
Joe Hamilton, 5 
Thomas Harris, 9 
Eugene Harris, 10 
Samiella Harrison, 1 
Rose Hibbert, 11 
Horace Jackson, 4 
Joseph Johnson, 4 
Lewis Johnson, 8 
Noah Johnson, 2 
Lewis Landry, 7 
Emma Landry, 15 
Frank Lincoln, 9 
Adeline Lyons, 11 
Joseph Manuel, 12 
Wanda Mary, 6 
Sam McKeaver, 8 
Emma Morgan, 15 
Henry Morris, 8 
Lucy Murphy, 11 
Edward Nelson, 10 
Gilbert Newman, 15 
Michell Pierre, 5 
David Polite, 10 
Ellen Powers, 7 
John Randoloph, 14 
Rosetta Rolete, 14 
Emille Rosseau, 6 
Mary Rosseau, 4 
Phillip Sheridan, 14 
Louisa Simms, 15 
Frank Skipper, 10 
Samuel Smith, 4 
Alfonzo Smith, 
Henry Smith, 10 
Paul Sylvester, 10 
John Walker, 5 
Peter Washington, 11 
Martha Washington, 12 
Emma Wells, 8 
Samuel Williams, 3 
Mary Williams, 16 
Alfred Windsor, 5