Butts County GaArchives News.....Whose Baby Is It???? June 25, 1897
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Jackson Argus June 25, 1897
Last Sunday morning about 1 o’clock Henry Bledsoe, col., who drives the 
Cleveland House hack was engaged to carry a white man and Negro woman up to 
John Cash’s, col., a few miles north of town.

These parties came down on the 10 o’clock night train and had in their custody 
a white baby some few weeks old.  They carried it out to the home of John Cash 
and there left it in charge of John’s wife.   The white man paid the Cash woman 
$4.00 to have her cotton hoed while she attended to the child.  The Negroes say 
they don’t know the parties who brought the child to them. That they never saw 
them before and don’t know their names.

Henry Bledsoe does not talk very freely about the matter.   He says he don’t 
now what became of the parties who had charged of the baby, but says he saw the 
Negro woman take the train going north next morning.  He tells a very 
disconnected story and there is every reason to believe that the little wait 
has behind it a dark mystery.

Jackson Argus – Week of June 25, 1897


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