The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 19, 1870, U. of Illinois Press

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CENSUS · 1870 An Item from the Census: The Washington Fergusoni Family [Maiden, weva3 1870] au ,; ~ Description ~ ~ _ ~ ~ 5, i, ~ ~ _ I 2 3 4 5 6 7 2 I 2 2 I 22 Furgerson, Watt [Wall?] 50 M B Packs Salt Nancy3 59 F B Keeping house Johns I 7 M B Day labor Booker ~4 M M Domestic Servant Amand5 I 2 F M At home James6 8 F7 M Census of 1870, Malden Township, Kanawha County, W.Va., p. 199, RG M-sg3 DNA. Columns left blank by the census taker were: parentage (father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth ); if born within the year; if married within the year; attended school within the year; whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic; male citizens of U.S. of twenty-one years of age and upwards, whose right to vote is denied or abridged on other grounds than rebellion or other crime. ~ Washington Ferguson, whose name is misspelled in the document, was a slave of Josiah Ferguson of Hale's Ford, Franklin County, Va. He married Jane, the mother of BTW, about ~ 859 and was the father of Amanda. He gave trouble to his owners who hired him out at the salt furnaces of Kanawha Salines, on the construction crew of a railroad, and to a tobacco factory in Lynchburg after the Civil War began. He seldom visited his family except at Christmas. Sometime during the Civil War, Wash Ferguson escaped into freedom, probably in June 1864, when the Union general David Hunter raided into Virginia as far as Lynchburg and then was forced to retreat. According to John H. Washington's recollection, Wash Ferguson was among the many slaves who escaped and followed Hunter. (John H. Washington to Asa L. Duncan, Aug. go, 19~3, Con. 934, BTW IS