Part 6 — O.R. Singleton

There are several men in the periphery of Robert Jefferson’s story. These include Thomas Jefferson Catchings, M.D., who had owned Robert’s wife, Celia, and probably their daughters, Lucy and Georgiana. Then there was Thomas’ brother, Silas Mercer Catchings, also a slave-owning planter. (I think it’s ironic that they are referred to as planters, when they surely never did any of the planting. Just sayin’.)

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