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Summary: Widow, Melissa (Tilman) Graham. Residents of Woodford County, Kentucky. Melissa and Charles Graham had no children under sixteen years of age. Charles died of Inflammation of the Lungs or Brain Fever. He was enslaved by R.F. Johnson (Richard). Charles Willis, a Sergeant of the same Regiment, gives an accounting how the large number of men and the lack of governmental accommodations, led to Charles Graham sleeping on the ground during the wintry months, which directly caused his illness and death. Deposition from James M. Botts and R.F. Johnson on pages 19-20.