Z 1821.000 Kelly (Peggie Peacock) Letter
Z 1821.000
KELLY (PEGGIE PEACOCK) LETTER
Peggie Peacock Kelly was born a slave, presumably on the Tennessee plantation of William Peacock, in 1823. According to Kelly, she was the daughter of Prince and Rose [Peacock?]. She had three brothers, Isaac, John, and George, and two half-sisters, names unknown, belonging to Thomas Peacock. She was sold by William Peacock to James Wortham of Kentucky, where she lived for three years. Subsequent owners were Jack Tucker (domicile unknown) and Evan Davis of Mississippi. The 1900 federal census for Oktibbeha County lists Kelly as a widowed housekeeper residing in Starkville with Nelson Haines, a black gardener who was sixty-four in 1900. Kelly would have been seventy-seven in 1900. It is not known when she died.