Samuel C. Jubilee, Company K

Samuel C. Jubilee and his wife Mary lived on the Eastern Shore before his military service. By 1880, they moved to Camden, New Jersey where she died.  Samuel married a much younger woman, Rosanna Rawson, whose first husband, Henry Rawson had served in U.S. Colored Troops. She continued to live in the Atlantic City, New Jersey house that Henry left to her in his will. This soldier’s brother Oscar Jubilee served in Company I, 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry. Oscar’s sketch is scheduled for First Monday, December 7, 2020.

Widow — 480,512 / 564,128, Rosanna Rawson
Combined with WC 371-434
Henry Rawson, Company A, 24 U.S.C. Infantry, 467,708 / 371,434; Widow — Rosanna Rawson

Certificate of Death, Mary Jublee, 24 September 1885
48 years old …[birthplace] Virginia … [resident of NJ] 19 years … [parents/birthplace] Leven Morris / America and Tabitha Morris / America … [cause of death] consumption of lungs … [buried] Camden, NJ

Certificate of Death, Henry Rawson, State of New Jersey, 20 July 1887
40 years old … teamster … [birthplace] Lynchburg, Va. … [resident of NJ] 22 years … [burial] Camden, NJ

General Affidavit, Abraham Kelly, 19 February 189_
“30 years old … acquainted with Samuel C. Jubilee.  … have known him since childhood … lived about a square and a half from him and found him down every evening when I came from work … I saw him almost daily”

Marriage Certificate, Henry Rawson & Rose Thomas, Undated
“This Certifies that the rite of Holy Matrimony was celebrated between Mr. Henry Rawson and Miss Rose Thomas of Lynchburg Va on August the 26th 1865 at the residence of Mr. John Jones, Lynchburg, Va by Mr. Berkly, Minister of the Gospel, Witness Henerita Pickens.”

Letter from Samuel C. Jubilee to Green B. Raum, US Commissioner of Pensions, 20 July 1891
“I feel regret to have to write to you concerning a Pension Granted to me some time the early part of Last spring ….I am now over sixty years I am unable to do any laboring work and I am at the mercy of those that schoose [sic] to help me … I don’t see the Reason why I cant git [sic] it and Sir Could you please to Oblidge [sic] me by letting me know the Delay of Possible”
Samuel C Jubilee, 921 Kaighne Avenue, Camden, NJ

Affidavit, Moses Rawson, 18 December 1891
32 years old; residence, 920 Mt. Vernon Street, Camden, NJ … “I am the son of Rosanna Rawson and was born in slavery … At the time of the death of Henry Rawson he was in possession of a small property located at Atlantic City and assessed at $800, this property is mortgaged at $720…. I have a wife and five children to care for and am unable to do much for the support of my mother who lives in the Atlantic City property.”

Affidavit, David Light, 18 December 1891
35 years old; residence, 717 Sycamore Street, Camden, NJ … “At the time of Henry Rawson’s death he owned a small property at Atlantic City that would rent for about $10 a month”

Affidavit, John Davis or John Dennis, 18 December 1891
43 years old; 807 Sycamore St., Camden, NJ … her son Moses is employed in the Camden, NJ Post Office

General Affidavit, Rosanna Rawson, 18 December 1891
48 years old; residence, 1010 North Ohio Ave., Atlantic City, NJ …”I was born in slavery and was owned by Albert Yerby of Farnham Creek, Va. … was given by my master to Peter Candy, also a slave, as his wife, two children were born to us, a boy and girl; the girl died in 1870, the boy still lives.  I was sold to Richard Lumpkins with my child … ran away from my master about the close of the war …married to Henry Rawson in October of 1865 at Farmville, Va. by a colored minister.  We remained there a short time, came to Philadelphia, then went to Camden, thence to Atlantic City.”

Marriage Return, Samuel C. Jubilee & R. Ransom [sic], State of New Jersey, 5 October 1892
Husband] Samuel C Jubilee … 60 years old … laborer … [birthplace] Virginia … [parents / birthplace] Sherp Jubile / Virginia and Rache Jube / Virginia … [Wife] Miss R Ransom … [birthplace] Virginia … 40 years old … 2nd marriage … [parents / birthplace] Moses Fesert / Richmond and Elsey Just / Richmond … [officiant] Moses Wilcox, Pastor of Baptist Church

Certificate of Death, Samuel C. Jubilee, August 1897
Samuel C Jubilee …61 years old … laborer …  [birthplace] Maryland … [resident in NJ] 30 years … [died] 14 Aug 1897 ……. New Jersey [buried] Johnson Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey

Widow’s Application for Accrued Pension, Rosanna Jubilee, 16 May 1903
“[D]eclares that she is the lawful widow of Samuel C. Jubilee, deceased, that he died on the 14 day of Aug 1897 … that he had been paid the pension by the Pension Agent at Philadelphia up to the 4th of May 1897 … that she was married to the said Samuel C Jubilee on the 5th day of Oct 1892 at Camden … that her name before said marriage was Rosanna Rawson … her post-office address is 1011 Chestnut Street, NJ …. Mary Ann Rackes, residing at 643 Sycamore St., Camden, NJ and Jeremiah C. Hamilton, 302 Chestnut St, Camden, NJ … know her to be the lawful widow of Samuel Jubilee.”

General Affidavit, Roseanna Jubilee, 17 June 1903
58 years old; residence, 1011 Chestnut S.t, Camden, NJ … “I was born in Richmond County Virginia fifty-eight years ago.  In 1865 I married Henry Rawson of A Co 24th Regiment Colored Troops who died at Atlantic City, NJ in 1886.  October 5th 1892 I married Samuel C. Jubilee in Camden, New Jersey.  He was a private in Company K 1st Regiment United States Colored Volunteer Cavalry receiving a pension of twelve dollars per month.  He died in Camden in August 1898.  He had been married before and when his wife died she left five children.”

General Affidavit, Mary Ann Backus & Jennie Forester, 15 July 1903
[Backus] 40 years old; residence, 622 Sycamore, Camden, NJ and [Forester] 29 years old; residence, 624 Cherry St., Camden, NJ … “they have known claimant 27 and 10 years respectively … they have lived near her.”

General Affidavit, Mary Ann Backus & Elizabeth Brown, 27 July 1903
[Backus] 40 years old; residence, 622 Sycamore, Camden, NJ and [Brown] 75 years old, 7th St & Kaighn Ave, Camden, NJ … they have known claimant intimately and well for 27 and 40 years respectively.  They knew her as the wife of Henry Rawson whom she married in 1865 and who died about 1887 and as the wife of Samuel C Jubilee who died in 1897…. Rawson never had but the one wife (claimant) and Jubilee but two (claimant and Mary Morris) who died about twenty years ago.”

General Affidavit, Elizabeth Brown & William T. Sample, 31 July 1903
[Brown] 75 years old; residence, South West Corner of 7th Street and Kaigne Avenue, Camden NJ and [Sample] 70 years old; residence, 762 Chestnut St., Camden, NJ … Brown has known Samuel C. Jubilee ever since he was born about 60 years ago and claimant about 38 years or ever since the close of the civil war.  William T. Sample says that he knew Samuel C. Jubilee for over 50 years and Rosanna Jubilee about 38 years … [they] are sure that neither were married before Jubilee married Mary Morris in Virginia before the war.”

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