Manuscript will. Dallas Co, AL, 17 January 1854. One page, 6 1/2 x 11 in. Docketed on verso.

Eli H. Lide of Dallas County, AL bequeaths to his daughter Caroline E. Dawson of Dallas County, "the following herein named negroes (slaves) viz one woman named Eveline about nineteen years of age, one woman named Laura about eighteen years of age and one girl about twelve years of age named Rachael..."

Eli H. Lide (1796-1854) was born in Darlington, SC and graduated from Columbia College in the 1810s. He moved to Alabama in the 1830s, working as a farmer and a merchant, and amassed a prominent estate including 90 enslaved people by 1854. That year, he decided to move to Texas. He brought all 90 enslaved people with him, but he and 40 of those individuals died of Asiatic cholera on the journey.