While some sources have stated that Chloe Sampson, Charles Chesnutt's maternal grandmother, was a single mother who moved to Cleveland with her daughter in 1856 and then purchased from her savings the house the family lived in on Hudson Street from 1856 to 1866, this page from the 1860 census belies that contention. It shows clearly that Chloe was already married at the time to Moses Harris—they actually had married, according to North Carolina marriage records, in 1839—which is critical information that very likely links Charles Chesnutt to the Richardson and Harris families, who lived near them in Cleveland and who had enormous impact on his early development as an autodidact. | Date: 1860 | Source: Ancestry.comDownload Original File
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Ancestry.com
Date
1860
"The Moses and Chloe family in Cleveland, 1860 " appears in: Charles W. Chesnutt
