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The Freedmen's Bureau Online

Records of the New Orleans Field Office, State of Louisiana
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865 - 1869
National Archives Microfilm Publication, Microcopy No. 1483


Sick and Wounded Refugees and Freedmen Transferred from the Rost Home Colony December 27, 1866

Name Age Sex Diagnosis
Gideon Seward 80 Male Chronic rheumatism
George Washington 45 Male Ulcer - right leg
Lem Gross 40 Male Anchylosis - knee
Samuel Baxler 70 Male Blind
Willson Colfer 45 Male Ulcer in foot, crippled hands
Gabrielle Evans 35 Male Insane
Edward Batise 38 Male Blind
Friday Green 70 Male Blind
Pegg Green 40 Female
Margaret Elvan 63 Female Blind
Louisa Arnold 70 Female Blind
Nancy Febu 30 Female Chronic rheumatism
Betsy London 45 Female Paralysis
Susan Saunders 35 Female Insane
Lavina Wade 35 Female Pneumonia
Nancy Woodus 70 Female
Unknown female 80 Female Deaf & Blind
Elsir Lyons Female
Gracie Shorts Female
Minerva Phillips Female
Amy Chambers Female
Louisa Simms Female
Eliza Scott Female