Have you heard of the Roswell Mill Women?
I piddle with genealogy and come across some interesting and
heart rendering stories in the background of some historical events.
Roswell Mill Women were women working in a factory in
Roswell. When General Sherman stormed this area in 1864 he discovered the
mill and women who worked there. They
were working on making CSA Uniforms.
Sherman had them arrested as prisoners of war and sent them to work in
factories north.
Adeline Bagley (1825-1910)
was one of these women, Roswell Mill workers. She ended up in Chicago. She was married to J. Buice, who was off
fighting in the war. Adeline is a
distant cousin to my wife Anna.
After the war she returned to Roswell to be with her husband
and children. Unfortunately, Buice, not
knowing her fate, remarried and had children by his new wife.
I do not know what Adeline did after she discovered her
husband and kids shifted away from her.
The only thing I know is she is buried here in Shirley Cemetery, near
Cummings, Ga.
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