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Mrs Johns was prior to her [[strikethrough]] e [[/strikethrough]] marriage to Bishop Johns the widow of Frederick W. Southgate deceased, late of Norfolk and she continued to reside in that city until her marriage with the Bishop which took place on the 14th July 1857.  She then removed from Norfolk and has never since resided there, but has always been at her husbands residence.

He resided, until May 1861, near Alexandria when he went for the more convenient discharge of his Episcopal duties in the diocese of Virginia of which he was Bishop within the Confederate lines and was accompanied by his wife and family residing for the greater part of the time in Halifax Co. Va.

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On the 13th Day of July 1857 the day before her marriage, an ante nuptial settlement was executed between Bishop Johns and his intended wife, Mrs A.E. Southgate by which with the Bishops assent - she conveyed to me as Trustee under the marriage settlement, all the property of every kind which she then held and possessed and which is specified in the deed, a copy of which is herewith shown.

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Mrs Johns at the time of her marriage had no interest whatever in the house, on Free-mason Street herein mentioned.  But in June 1861, the father of her first