This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLAPP, MEIGS, MYER, SHEPHERD, STEWART Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xd.2ADE/1474 Message Board Post: In 1848, Charles Dawson STEWART sold to his son-in-law Henry Vincent MEIGS an undivided one-eighth interest in the property of the Columbus Factory (a cotton mill and related operations, also known as Clapp’s Factory), including an undivided one-eighth interest in two slaves, Myer and Sheppard, engaged in work at the mill. This factory was located three miles north of Columbus in Muscogee County, GA. In 1862, MEIGS sold to Julius Rowe CLAPP his one-eighth interest in the factory property, including interest in Negro slaves named Shepherd, John, Jake & Dick, who were owned and employed by the Columbus Factory. Had Myer died in the interim, and if so, is he buried in the Clapp’s Factory Cemetery? (All of the graves but one there are now unmarked.) Note incidentally that, during 1861, the 30 slaves employed in the tannery and shoe factory at Clapp’s Factory tanned 5,000 sides of leather and manufactured 12,000 pairs of heavy shoes for field workers. I believe some of the slaves at Clapp's Factory were engaged as domestic servants, and some probably worked in other trades as well. Any suggestions on tracking down records of these slaves or locating their descendants would be appreciated, and I will be glad to share further information about Clapp’s Factory.