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The State of Alabama
Chambers County

Personally appeared before R T Smith Sub Asst Comm'r
of the Sub Dist of Opelika Ala Bureau of R.F. and A.L. Henry Roland (Cold) who after being duly sworn says on oath
that since the close of the late rebellion, the
following named Freedmen have been murdered in the neighborhood of Fredonia Ala. to wit, Gov. Fuller Nelson Ferrell, Renal Ferrell and [[strikethrough]] Deck [[/strikethrough]] Askew. Affiant says that he does not know who did the killing, but that John Lawrence and Joseph Adams are accused of the killing of two of them.

Henry Roland his X mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th Feby 1868.
R T Smith
Sub Asst Commr &c

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