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Title	Monthly Report, July 1867
Record type	report
Creator	unattributed
Date of creation	1867-07-08
Series	Records of the field offices for the State of Tennessee, 1865-1872 T142
Description	J. K. Nelson agent for the counties of Rutherford and Cannon reports Albert Ellis charged as an accomplice to murder of Henry Lovelady.
Additional notes	Series T142, Reel 41, [Frame unknown] [Pages are not numbered; this document can be found in the 19th report on the roll, on the 7th page. Best to search by date.]
Excerpt from record	"The Criminal Court of Rutherford Co. is now in session ad the case of the col'd soldier Albert Ellis, Company F of the 111th United States Colored Troops (USCT) charged with being an accomplice in the murder of a little white boy, Henry Lovelady (aged about 8 years) on or about the 6th day of March, 1866. The jury found him guilty of "Involuntary Manslaughter" and sentenced him to the Penitentiary for five years. The finding was in accordance with the facts but the sentence severe in the extreme."
Geographic location	Rutherford County (Tenn.) Cannon County (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Nelson, J. K. Ellis, Albert Lovelady, Henry Nelson, James K.
Subject (LC)	African Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--19th century Race relations Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee--Rutherford County Rutherford County (Tenn.) United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--Records and correspondence
Coverage	1860-1869
Contributing institution	National Archives and Records Administration
Medium	microfilm
Bibliographic citation	[Document title, date]. Records of the field offices for the State of Tennessee. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. Series T142, [Reel number, Frame number/s]. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Copyright status	Public domain
Collection name	Freedman's Bureau Records