Major William Garner Tidbit: Palmyra, MO
"William Garner, a seventy-seven-year-old Marion County farmer
who owned three adult slave women and four children, hired a thirty-year-old slave man to assist him on his farm;"
source:page 114
On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865
By Diane Mutti Burke
Published 2010 University of Georgia Press
Athens, GA
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Liberty Township, Palmyra, Marion County, Missouri
1860 Census Slave Schedule