Thomas Woolfolk, GA, 1890 October 29

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_ Woolfolk's mother died when he was | i
former Confederate A rmy Captain Ric Te d ik, Woolf
——-proninent-and weak hy Bibb COes Gae, planter 3 remarried —
_ Mattie Howard, the daughter of a Wealthy landowner, By _
his second wife , Woolfolk had sx chéldren whose ages in
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family plantation and accepted a job at $9.00 per moe

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