Petition #20285803

Abstract

Diadema Collins, widow of John F. Hudson who died in 1854, seeks her share of slaves in his estate from the county sheriff, acting as "public administrator." Hudson's estate included land and six slaves, including a dark mulatto woman named Leath and her five children: Sam, age twelve; Green, age ten; Ann, age seven; Mary age four; and Francis, age ten months. Diadema, who has since married Alexander Collins, owned two slaves in her own right, Malinda, age twenty, and her infant son Henry, but she never received a dower from her late husband's estate. Now, four years later, she and her husband are petitioning for her rightful share.

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Repository: Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, Arkansas

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