The times., 1901-03-10

large family Ore of the younger sons,
Thornton Augustus, was appointed to
West Point by General Winfield Scott. lie
served through the civil war. and when
the Philippine trouble arose ne was sent
70 Manila as a general Benjamin Frank
lin, the thir0 son, vas 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 persuad-
ed to come West. He die so. settling
about six miles from NarrenbGrg. Mo.
some time in the early 50s. Not long af-
ter his arrival the remainder of the fam
| ily 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 book con-
I Cerniug 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 crowd OF
John Brown s men. AS soon as he found
out who they were trouble arose. He was
shot and his body thrown into the river.
/ For a long time the family were utterly
ignorant of his sad end. The manuscript
was taken and destroyed.
Georgiana. daughter married man
named Smith later a major in the Union
army The family did all in their power
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way. Good IL 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 family timely as
siStance. GeOrgianua died, not many
years since in Little Rock, Ark. Not long
/ before her death. she wrote Mrs. Cross
Z beautiful letter showing that she had new
er forgotten her Two other daughters
married into the famous Blackburn fan.i-
I ly of nentucky.
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 it just seemed
as if | was tied to them Now, If / had
the money d go right back to virginia,
YOU bet | would. I'm too entirely tar
away from nome Oh, if / only knew
where to lind my old masters family
My white folks was always awful good
to their darkes, she continued 'Ot
course, old master had to whip the baG
ones sometimes just the same as he did
his own children He never struck me
but once in my life. and ! brought that
down on my own head. He was a EaaglS-
tratp 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 or Jhe D1y9
ana didn't notice what J was dOtnS-I be
gan sweeping them out Just then old
master stepped into the room l didn {
see him. but ! soon felt his hand-whacS!
He slapped me on the cheek and said:
/ What did | tell you about sweeping out
nv pa1jers?" Well that taught me a les
son have never forgot. I havnt burned
up a paper from that day TO this And
you can Just bet l never gave him
chance to hit me again ON no, sir.
My white folks We're pure arlstocratS.
They didn't work any They haA ser
wants to do everything for them W ny
/ 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-
tprtaired company all the time. There
amt no sho' nuG aristocTats out here in
Kansas Even the men didn't work in
Virginia. but when Marse George came
to Missouri he worked just like a black
man. One day he was working in the
field and his clothes was awful ragged
Some ladies drove by in carriage and
he Just stood up straight and looked at
them till they got out of sight Said ne
lust had to do it TO hide himself
'Our darkies didn't have to work very
hard either. There were lots o house
maids lots O walters. lots o cooks and 50
on 'Twasnt like it is here, where one or
two servants had to do everything. Why
sometimes 7 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
free man or woman. Now there was
Ike. the carpenter. He married a free wO-
man who had money. She came to my
master. and wanted to buy Ike. Master
said. AN right, you can have him for
! S4o0 and he could have sold him for 81,
600 any day in the week. That's the kind
/ Of man my old master was"