Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-05-14
OLD PEOPLE
A Kentucky Woman Who Knew Washington
Jefferson, Randolph and jackson.


Jefferson, Randolph and jackson.
The Cincinnati Post publishes pic
turc of and an interview with Mrs.
Charlotte Robinson, nearly lOO years
old, living in CoynCton. She says:
II was born at Liberty. the county
seat of Bedford county, Va, twenty
five miles from Lynchburg. Our fam
lly name was Gallery. We were OF
Scotch descent, and our name original
ly was spelled Carfrie. | remember
my grandfather commenting upon the
new name that the people had given
us, and which in our time we gave our
selves. My father was in good cir
cumstances and \ captain in the war
Did ever see Gen. Washington? o
YES, when | was cMll. | remember
how he happened to be at our house.
lie and my father were well acquant-
cd, and after the war they went to-
gethcr to New York, and there bought
two oolorcd boys. brothers. When
Gen. Washington returned from
Washington city on one occasion his
colored boy, then grown to be man,
had disappeared. He learned that the
boy had come to our place in Bedford
county to see his brother, and so he
came after him. | was only . child
| then, but | remember that he was
very fond of children, for he took me
on his knee, and tossed me and made
much of me. Ny father died while
still | was a child, and while at Ma
rion college married my coujin,
Tubal Early, my mothers brother
son. Ny husband was cousin TO Gen.
Jubal Early's mother. She admired
my husband very much, and named
her son, the general, after him, but
by some mistake made in the pronun
citation or spelling he was named Ju'
bal, instead of Tuhal, as intended
never saw ten. Early. His folks
lived in Charlotte county, which wa'
Il long way of in those days. My rcla
tionshlp with him, YOU see, is very re
mote, and vet he is the only relative
have living | have Outlycd all m!
relatives aud friends, and 1 am alone
Alone, and in poverty!
80 yes, | knew Jefferson very well
HIS place was called Poplar Forest, 10
Gated in Bedford county, and he was :
near ncighbor OF my husbands father
who. YOU know, was also my uncle
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