Freedmen's Bureau Records: Thomas P. Jackson to John
A. McDonnell, September 11, 1867
Summary:
Jackson reports the case of a woman and her two children who will soon become
homeless in Staunton. He asks that the Bureau provide them with transportation
to Winchester, where her husband and other friends live.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office 4th Division, 9th
Sub-District, Virginia.
Capt. John A.
McDonnell
Sub Asst.
Comr
Winchester
Sept 11t 1867
Staunton, Va.
Captain
Martha Marston (c) mother of Mimi 10 years and Alfred 7 years, are living with a widow lady in Staunton who cannot keep them longer and they must be homeless. Martha says her husband Anthony Marston (c) lived with Mr. Philip Louis Burrel at Winchester, that she was "refugeed" here and if she could reach Winchester where all her friends live she could do well enough. I respectfully ask enquiry be made for her husband, or friends, and if it appears she can be bettered by removal before bad weather that transportation or aid toward it, be furnished for Martha and her two children, hence to Winchester.
Yr. obt servt
Thos P. Jackson
Agent
