Freedmen's Bureau Records: Thomas P. Jackson to John
A. McDonnell, May 17, 1867
Summary:
Jackson forwards a complaint of neglect by Fenton Wells, and asks that her
husband be found and required to support her.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office 4th Division, 9th
Sub-District, Virginia,
Capt. John A.
McDonnell
Sub Asst
Comr
Winchester
May 17, 1867.
Staunton, Va.,
Captain
Fenton Wells (freedwoman) living at Staunton complains that her husband John Arnall neglects to support herself or family and asks that he join her here or send for her to live with him at Richmond. About Christmas 1866 John Arnall was employed as a blacksmith by Mr. John Tanner, Gamble's Hill, Richmond. Fenton appears to be a striving respectable woman and I respectfully ask he (Arnall) may be found and required to assist her.
Yr obt servt
Thos P. Jackson
Agent
