I must correct the above information about the Atwell's sons. Although the 1880 census sloppily records that all of them were born in New York, Joseph was born in 1868, when his parents were in Louisville, KY, Robert in 1870, when they were in Petersburg, and Earnest in 1877, when the family was indeed living in New York. Sometime in 2012, a biographical article on Cordelia Jennings Atwell will be posted in Oxford African American Studies Center, online.