Who was that “little colored girl"?

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(03-13-2017 11:28 AM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  

(03-13-2017 11:14 AM)loetar44 Wrote:  To all:

Captain Henry W. Smith, who arrested “all suspicious personages” in Surratt’s house on Monday, 17 April 1865 later declared: “We found Mrs. (Mary) Surratt, Miss (Anna) Surratt, Miss Fitzpatrick, Miss Jenkins, a little colored girl asleep on the floor in the back room, and downstairs a colored woman who said her name was Susan (= Susan Ann Mahoney), and a man, she said, was her husband (Samuel Jackson? – they married April 28, 1865).

Who knows who was that “little colored girl asleep on the floor?”

Thanks.

That was the daughter of Rachel, aka Eliza Hawkins. Rachel later testified that she went to the boardinghouse on the morning of Tuesday, April 18, to get her young daughter, and was told by the soldiers there that anyone who went there could not come out.

Thanks Susan!

BTW: do you know what became of that little girl?