Tintype Identification
Picture found behind Fred and Margie Oakes marriage license. In 1858 in Chancery Court in Claiborne County, MS there was a divorce proceeding that involved Caroline Dungan who asks the court to grant her a divorce from her husband, Jacob Dungan. “The petitioner discloses that two years ago her husband "committed the crime of adultery with a certain negro slave," confiding that Jacob has "openly and notoriously lived apart from your Oratrix, and in adultery with said negro slave, with whom he has constantly committed, and still does daily commit, the crime of adultery." The complainant seeks to dissolve her marriage and asks the court to order her husband to answer her charges. Witnesses deposed in the case state that Jacob Dungan freely admitted his adulterous relationship with the "mulatto woman named Sarah" and acknowledged as his own her two children, who are "as white as any white children, with straight hair." Witnesses also state that Dungan told them that he had freed Sarah and her children.” Jacob and Sarah moved to Ohio and after his death she married and had more children. Eventually they all appeared in the census as white. This woman seems too dark to be labeled mulatto.
There is another possibility for the photo. In the 1880 Census there is a Charles Henry living in Madison, MS. He is mulatto, his wife is Della, he has a child Mattie. Julia Hadry(sp) 47, his mother, is living with them. She was born in Tennessee. Works in the field. In the 1900 Census, there is a widow, Julia Hatley (maybe Hartley, maybe Hadry), living in Vernon, Madison County, MS with her son Charlie Henry, 48, and his two children John 24, married and Roxie, 22, married. Julia is 64 making her born 1836 so she would have been a slave. She lists Kentucky as her birth place as well as that of her parents. She likely chose her name from her slave owner. The fact that my mother saved the picture implies some connection to the family.
Recently I was notified by Amazon DNA that there was a match with me. The family tree involved Joe Dee Hartley, born June 19, 1910, Pocohontas, MS which is very near Flora, MS. childhood home of my mother Margie Hartley. Joe Dee is married to Anniebell Jackson, born in Madison, MS May 18, 1914. Her father is Dalfus Jackson and her mother is Tex A. Fienge.They were married in Marion, Indiana, on September 2, 1939. In 1940, they are living in Indianapolis. The census says that in 1935 they both lived in maybe Benton, MS. They have a stepson Palmer Ray. Apparently a child of Annie's from an earlier marriage. In 1946, Joe is a barber in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1959, he is in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Front: George H. Hartley(G.L.’s Father), George Leroy. and Mary Elizabeth Hartley
About 1902