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Nelson Dismuke & Almeda Dismuke freedwoman 
V.
Amanda Collins

Probate Court Coffee Co Ala
Special term
Feby 16th 1866

This case came in to be heard this day and the facts was as follows &c, The plaintiffs filed their application in the probate court of said County to revoke the indentures of apprenticeship entered into between the Honorable B.W. Starke Judge of Probate for Coffee County, and the Defendant Amanda Collins on the  ___ day of December 1865 binding as apprentice the plaintiff Almeda Dismuke's two daughters, Hennie 13 years of age and Viola ten years of age, the plaintiffs proved by Thomas Butwell and James Butwell, witnesses who reside near the plaintiffs, that the plaintiff Nelson Dismuke who is the Husband of Almeda is able to support their children, that he is now engaged in a liberal and profitable business, that he is making a competency to subsist upon, and to support their children well. The Defendant then introduced William Dismuke her father, who testified that he owned said plaintiffs as slaves 

Transcription Notes:
Two Censuses spelled "Almeta" Dismuke, not Almeda. She is with Nelson in 1870.