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M. 77. RF and AL D of P 1 v. 67
(Enclo No. 4.)

Catherine Cox, colored, This day personally appeared before me, a notary public for the County of Augusta and state of Virginia, and made oath: That she was employed in F.S. Tukey's family during the winter of 1866, as house servant, and during the time I recall, it distinctly of his going to Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, on the day the last United States soldier left here, and of his bringing home a supply of commissary stores, among which were tea, coffee, sugar, soap, lard, candles, and  a barrel of pork and salt mackeral, the two last mixed together.  That when Mr Tukey left home he did not tell Mrs Tukey any thing about his intention to go, and she was somewhat anxious, consequently about him; and that appeared and some of the teachers laughed at her, and remarked in a joking manner, that her husband had run away from her.  That when the articles already named were unpacked, it was found that the coffee and sugar, being in the same box, were mixed, and that said Tukey spent some time in trying to seperate them, one from the other. That one of the teachers, who was present when the mackeral was taken out from among the pork, remarked that he hated mackeral, and always did: That

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