Stephen

Stephen is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver Felix Lanier. Stephen was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS”

The records show that Felix Lanier was paid $549.00 on November 14, 1862 and another $180.00 on November 30, 1862 for the work of “his nine Negroes: Jim, Haywood, Stephen, Andrew, Big George, George, Peter, Willis, Adam” conducted between July 27 and Oct 31, 1862 and again between Nov 1 and Nov 31, 1862.

Profile written by Jeff Jackson and Beth Kruse