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State of Georgia 
Dougherty County [added text: }]
Maria Jones, freedwoman being duly sworn, deposes and says that she is thirty two years of age, that she lives at Stotin Waltons place, about one mile and a half from China Grove Church, in Mitchell County, that on Sunday morning Sept, 20th 1868, the day following that of the Camilla Riot she went to the house of Sucius Pollard a freedman, about one mile from her house, to enquire for her son who had been absent since the previous day, That Sucius Pollard [added text: was] not at home, and had not been since the previous day, That while at his house she heard in the woods East of the house the firing of guns and the barking of dogs, that upon this she hastened home to tell her husband what she had heard. That about one hour after reaching home, her husband having fled, Sucius Pollard came 



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running from the direction whence she had heard the firing and the dogs saying that the "White folks" were running the freedmen with hounds and shooting them as they overtook them, that Sucius Pollard kept on past her house in the direction of the river and that she has not seen him since
(Signed) 
her (Signed) Maria [added text: her] X [added text: mark] Jones 
Sworn to and subscribed 
before me at Albany Ga. this 5th day of October 1868 
(Signed) O. H. Howard 
Bvt Major [Brevet Major] U S A [United States Army], 
2d Lieut [Lieutenant], 5th Artillery 
S A Com'r [Sub Assistant Commissioner], BRF & AL [Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands], 
A true copy 

[Signed] M Frank Gallagher

Bvt Capt. [Brevet Captain] AAAG