Enslaved People Named: Lidda
On March 22, 1855, Phereby Shuman, Bryan County, sold to Wm. [William] H. Shuman, Bryan County, for $300 “the following property to wit, a certain negro girl named Lidda about five years of age of yellow complexion which negro girl I warrant to be sound and well in body and mind and to be a slave for life.” Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on February 20, 1863.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. H-J 1853-1874, Book I (1860-1869), page 136-7; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-197K-2 : 8 May 2025), image 387 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.