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Have found Alex Dortch as first slaveowner for Ruben Dortch his wife and children including his son Charles who was interviewed in the WPA slave narratives, found online at ancestry and the Library of Congress site.
State: Arkansas Interviewee: Dortch, Charles Green
Ruben's daughter Adrianna was also interviewed:
State: Arkansas Interviewee: Mrs. A. (Adriama) W. Kerns
"My mother's first child was her master's child. I was the second child but my father was Reuben Dortch. He belonged to Colonel Dortch, Colonel Dortch died in Princeton, Arkansas, Dallas County, about eighty-six miles from here. He died before the War. I never saw him. But he was my father's first master. He used to go and get goods, and he caught this fever they had then---I think it was cholera---and died. After Colonel Dortch died, his son-in-law, Archie Hays, became my father's second master. Were all with Hays when we were freed.
(the reference to master's child is to overseer Wilson Rainey who was reported to be the father of Ruben)
Slave schedules confirm that the Colonel Dortch referred to is Alex Dortch from VA.
Was curious about this families relationship to Mecklenburg Dortch lines - since I have a collateral ancestor - surnamed Dortch who married a Baskerville, in Mecklenburg County VA and I have found an Alex Dortch in Mecklenburg in 1840 census.
Denise
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