The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 314, Nov. 1886, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers nephew. Harris remained at Tuskegee for three years but did not graduate. He died in Togo, West Africa, in 1909, as a member of the Tuskegee expedition to raise cotton there. It is probable that Aaron Harris and Daniel A. Harris, who entered Tuskegee's night school in 1884 and remained for four and three years respectively, were Shepherd Harris's brothers. The thirteen-year-old boy mentioned by Bryant was probably Henry P. Clayton, who entered the day school in 1886 but did not return in 1887. (See J. T. Harrison for Anderson Bryant to BTW, June 4, 1903, Con. 264, BTW Papers, DLC.) From Hiram R. Davidson' Idiotic Asylum Columbus Ohio Nov 4th 1886 Dear Brother. I received your letter some days ago, but did not get time to ancer it. Mothers got a letter from Mary3 last week stating that Emma4 had got her boxes. her PO address is Cincinnati Ohio. ~ was not aware that Ollie5 was in B.6 have not had a letter from her since you left W.va. you said in your letter that you contemplated puting in watter works. I send you with this mail some papers treating on sanitary water suply, which may be of use to you. Mother and Matt7 bouth send their love. hoping that you are all well, I am yours very truly H. R. Davidson ALS Con. 84 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Hiram R. Davidson, Olivia Davidson Washington's brother. It is not clear whether he was an inmate or an employee of the asylum in Columbus. According to a letter from his sister, Mary A. Elliott, to BTW on Dec. 9, 1892: ''Is it possible that Hiram written to you. I am glad poor Hiram he is to be pitied, more than censured poor brother.'' (Con. ~ 7, BTW Papers, DLC.) 2 Eliza Davidson, the mother of Olivia Davidson Washington, was a slave in Tazewell County, Va., probably born in the early 1820S. Escaping with several children during the Civil War, she became the cook of the Union general George A. Custer and remained for a time after the war as a Custer family servant before moving to Ashtabula and later to Albany, Ohio. 3 Mary A. Davidson Elliott. ~ Presumably not a member of the Davidson family. The 1870 census listed no person named Emma in the household. 5 Olivia A. Davidson Washington. Boston. 7 Probably Martha L. Davidson, sister of Hiram and Olivia, born in 1856 or 1857. 3I4