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Participant Info
- Slaveholder
- James E Gachet
- Locations
- Macon County Alabama
- Researcher
- Melvin Cox
- Researcher's E-mail
- mstrcox AT pacbell.net
- Researcher Location
- Alabama
- Comments
- Mary Lou Matthews born in Georgia in 1857 and died in 1915 was the concubine of Nicholas Gachet born in 1854 and died in 1925 son of James. James Gachet was one of the largest slaveholders in Macon county with 79 slaves in 1860. Not sure if Mary was a slave or free at the time of the Civil War. Gachets' had several plantations in Alabama and Georgia with large slave holdings. Mary Lou had a brother named Gaius Mathews born in 1840 in Georgia. In 1870 she was working as a domestic in Troy Ala for a family named Worthy.
- On-line Tree or Website
- Ancestry.com
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