
The slaves bequeathed by Joseph Russ to his son, Joseph W. Russ, under "Item 6th," include Dorah and her children, who include Madison, Emanuel and Hammon. Dorah is certainly the woman identified by T. Thomas Fortune in After War Times as his grandmother Docia. Fortune mentions both Madison and Hammon as step-brothers of Emanuel. Their father was John Pope who became the county's leading AME Minister and a county school board member after Emancipation. Fortune writes that both Madison and Hammon fled Jackson County to join the U.S. Colored Troops. Emanuel is certainly TT Fortune's father and would have been about 11 years old at the time the will was sworn.