----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheila Anderson-Lewis" <[email protected]> To: "Sheila Anderson-Lewis" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 8:47 PM Subject: Rufus Hansford Delp > I need help. I just found out through family history that Rufus Hansford > Delp spent some time in prison shortly after my great grandfather, John > Arthur Anderson, (Rufus' son by Sarah Caroline Anderson) was born in 1874. > He spent about 5 or 6 years for manslaughter. Does anyone have any info on > this or possible sites for prison lists of that time period? And where would > he have been incarcerated at? He lived in between Grayson Co VA and Sparta > NC, and it is unknown which side of the state line he lived on, as they > lived RIGHT at the state line there in the mountains. > > Also, besides the fact that his mother, Martha Ann James, was pretty much a > full blooded Indian (family history says Cherokee, but pictures indicate > maybe Saponi/Mattaponi tribe), If an Indian got in a fight with a white man > and a white man died in the 1870's, probability was the Indian was going to > jail regardless of whether he was at fault or not. So who knows if grandpa > was actually guitly or not. All I do know is that he was torn between two > women obviously as he had two commonlaw wives at the same time and had 6 > children by one of them, as he had none by Eliza Crutchfield, as I can find. > And when Eliza was released from the mental instution that she went to > before he got with Sarah Caroline, Rufus up and left Sarah with 6 children > to care for and went to Oregon with Eliza. He died there and was buried > there with her. > > Please email me if you can help with this mystery. > > Still searching! > Sheila Anderson-Lewis > [email protected] > > >