The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-10

large family One of the younger sons.
Thornton Augustus. was appointed to
| West Point by General Winfield Scott. He
| served through the civil war. and when
| the Philippine trouble arose he was sent
| to Manila as general. Benjamin Frank
| lin, the third son, was appointed admin
| istrator of his fathers estate. Through
| poor management and expensive living
| the family got into debt and Cedar Lawn
| had to be sold. This was. perhaps, ten
, years after the fathers death.
George, the youngest son, was rsrsuad-
| ed to come West He did so. settling
| about six miles from Warrenburg. Mo.
! some time in the early SOS. Not long af-
| ter his arrival the remainder of the fam
| lily also came on from Virginia. The old
/ est son. Lawrence Berry, sided with the
| South in the border troubles, and in an
| engagement with the anti-Slavery forces
! was severely wounded. Some time previ-
| Gus TO this he had written a book con-
I corning the state of affairs then existing
| on the border, and as soon as he recov-
| cred from his wound decided to take the
| manuscript to Virginia and have it pub
/ lished. He started out but while going
| down the river fell in with a crowd of
! John Brown & men. As soon as he found
| out who they were trouble arose. He was
shot and his body thrown into the river.
! For long time the family were utterly
/ ignorant of his sad end. The manuscript
! was taken and destroyed.
Georgiana. daughter, married man
/ named Smith. later major in the Union
| army. The family did all in their power
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way. Good 1t was for the family, too.
( that she did for when their property was
/ taken from them because they were
! Southern sympathizers Major Smith was
/ enabled to render the TaIIfry timely as
siStance. Georgianna died, not many
/ years since. in Little Rock. Ark. Not long
/ before her death. she wrote Mrs Cross a
/ beautiful letter showing that she had new
! er forgotten her. Two other daughters
married into the famous Blackburn fami-
I ~ of kentucky.
After the war the family all went back
to Virginia and Aunty Cross, being free;
/ came to Kansas. Il could have stayed
with Them she said, but ii Just seemed
as If | was tied to them. Now, If ! had
the money I'd 90 right back to Virginia,
you bet | would. I'm too entirely far
away from nome. Oh if / only knew
where to lind my old masters family
My white folks was always awful GOOD
to their darkies, she continued Oi
| course, old master had to whip the bad
I ones sometimes just the same as ne did
/ his own children He never struck me
( but once in my life. and / brought that
/ down on my own head. He was nagis-
/ trate and would often leave his Office lit
/ tered with valuable papers He told me
never to sweep them up, but one day.
/ was just beginning to think of the boys
/ ana didn't notice what ] was doing-I be-
| gan sweeping them out. Just then old
/ master stepped into the room l dldn
/ see him. but / soon felt his hand-whacSi
J He slapped me on the cheek ana SAID:
I What did | tell you about sweeping out
| my pa1jers?" Wen that taught me a les
! son have never forgot. l hayn't burned
| up paper from that day to this And
| YOU can Just bet | never gave him
I chance to hit me again. ON no, sir
My white folks We're pure aristocrats.
! They didn't work any. They hal ser
/ wants to do everything for them. by
| don't blame them for fighting to keep
, their darkieS. I'd a-fought. too. indeed
| would. Why, they just sat around and
read. or played the piano. or rode or en-
oil a
/ amt no sho' 'nun aristocrats out here in
/ Kansas. Even the men didn't work in
Virginia, but when Marse George came
to Missouri he worked just like black
/ man. One day he was working in the
/ field and his clothes was awful ragged.
Some ladies drove by in a carriage and
he Just stood up straight and looked at
them till they got out of sight Said he
I Just had to do it to hide himself
''Our darlzies didn't have to work very
hard. either. There were lots o house
maids. lots O walters. lots o. cooks and so
on. 'Twasn't like it is here. where one or
sometimes I just sit down and think of
what good times we used to have. and
/ long to he back there again with my
white folks.
My old master never sold any of his
darIlies, except when one of them married
| a free man or woman. Now there was
Ike, the carpenter. He married free wo-
| man who had money. She came to my
master. and wanted to buy Ike. Master
said. All right, you can have him for
/ 800 and he could have sold him for 81,
/ 60 any day in the week. That's the kind
of man my old master was