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An insurance policy issued by the Southern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Columbia, South Carolina, on May 4, 1863, insuring two enslaved persons, Martha (18 years old) and Eva (15 years old), owned by Samuel Levy of Columbia, Georgia. This policy is considered the only known extant Civil War-era insurance policy for enslaved people owned by a Jewish person.
Billhead from S. Mayer & Glauber, grocers and liquor dealers, located on Bay Street in Brunswick, Georgia. The billhead is dated July 26, 1883, and mentions the Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Co. The document is a commercial record reflecting business activities in Brunswick, Georgia.
Billhead - S. Marcus...Stationary Store...Montgomery, Alabama...7/26/1883. The identity of Sigmund Marcus (S. Marcus) as a Jewish businessman in 19th-century Montgomery, Alabama, is documented through historic local synagogue archives, regional Jewish history databases, and public records:Synagogue Membership Records: Sigmund Marcus is historically recorded as a congregant and contributor to Kahl Montgomery (later known as Temple Beth Or), which was formally established in 1849 as Montgomery’s first Jewish congregation