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- The 1860 Federal Census Slave Schedule for Doddridge County, enumerated on Jun 1 1860, contains the following entry:
Slave owner: L. R. Charter
Description of slaves:
1 mulatto female, age 28
1 mulatto female, age 2
The 1870 Census of West Union, enumerated on Jun 6 1870, found the following persons in the Charter household:
L. R. Charter, 53, b. Massachusetts, physician; Ella Charter, 17, b. Va; C. Atchison Charter, 13, b. Va; Mary E. Fraser, 25, b. Ohio, housekeeper.
Dr. Charter's wife Lucia had died three years before. Five months after that census, the housekeeper became his second wife. [5]
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