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Before me personally appeared the undersigned Maria Trothes and being duly Sworn deposes as follows..
My name is Maria Trothes I live in the City of Memphis Tenn 
On the night of the 2" day of May 1866 four white men came to my house occupied by myself and husband (Ned Trother) knocked at the door but I did not answer. they then set fire to the house, and before I could get out it was all in a blaze. the house was burned to the ground and all it contained destroyed - there was Sixty Dollars in money in the house which was lost our loss without including the money would amount to about $300.00 my husband was absent at Little Rock at the time. About half an hour before I saw them shoot a woman named Ratchell (Colored) and set fire to her cloths after they had killed her. 
Marie Her x Mark Trother
Subscribed and Sworn to before me this the 10" day of May 1866.
(Signed) {M. Walsh
{Capt. and. A.A.A.G.
{and Pro M. Freedmen
True Copy 
F.W. Hendrick
Capt + A.S.S.