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Historian of the 19th Century U.S. and Associate Prof. at Maryville College. Author of Rebels on the Border and Civil War along Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau

Maryville, TN
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    Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 28 Sep 2020

    Every now and then I'll come across a name in the 1860 census that rings a bell. Here is one: J. R. Rudolph, from Clarksville, TN. He was a farmer and slaveowner. The name resonated because one of Clarksville's most famous citizens was Wilma Rudolph.pic.twitter.com/cSR7NPoo74

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      2. Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 28 Sep 2020

        Wilma Rudolph's paternal grandfather was named West (or Wesley) Rudolph and was born in 1857. Here he is in the 1870 census.pic.twitter.com/RI1QCQQG1S

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      3. Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 28 Sep 2020

        There were only a handful of people with the surname of "Rudolph" in 1860 and J. R. Rudolph (census posted above) is listed on the slave census as holding a 5-year old boy in bondage. That could certainly be West Rudolph as he was born just east of Clarksville.

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      4. Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 28 Sep 2020

        This is all just partial information since the slave census did not record the names of the enslaved. But it is very likely the paternal grandfather of Wilma Rudolph.pic.twitter.com/blmnP5pY0q

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      2. Anne Muntean‏ @AnneMuntean 28 Sep 2020
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        Hero since 4th Grade.pic.twitter.com/OcZ3A7cPWq

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      3. Anne Muntean‏ @AnneMuntean 28 Sep 2020
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        I always admired Jesse Owens, but somehow the story of Wilma Rudolph and her mother traveling to Nashville for polio treatments because Clarksville didn't have a "Black" hospital, has always touched a deeper chord. That she was the world's fastest woman after having polio was WOW

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      2. Andy Grossman‏ @CtAndyG 28 Sep 2020
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        I wonder why so many ex-slaves kept the names of their former masters. Inertia? Easier legally? I know many changed their names to those of presidents. Why so many Washingtons, Jeffersons, Jacksons, Lincolns.

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      3. Null‏ @NullAzor06 29 Sep 2020
        Replying to @CtAndyG @AstorAaron

        My guess is that they needed last names for legal documentation purposes post-freedom/emancipation and went with what they knew. Also, more than a few were actually related to their slaveowners, because...you know...

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      2. seriously 211‏ @seriously211 28 Sep 2020
        Replying to @AstorAaron

        Is the 1860 census online? Would love to look up some of my ancestors..

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      3. Tyler Anbinder‏ @TylerAnbinder 29 Sep 2020
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        It’s online for free at http://familysearch.org .

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