The Robesonian., 1908-06-25

than two miles away and we
went there by train, meeting Mr..
R. w. Livermore, who has been |
the leading business man there
for 25 years, and who likes and
is liked by these people. He
gives them a very fair character
indeed. A good proportion of
them are landowners, and as
race they are industrious. He
has the names of hundreds of
them upon his books, and says
they are as good payers as the
whites. 1t was interesting to
look over his books and see the
long array of English names, so
many of which were those on
the roll of Sir Walter Raleigh's
colonists.
THE NORMAL SCHOOL.
1t was short walk along the
railway track to the normal
school, a building half unpainted
and standing on the edge Of a
pine grove, with a church to one
side, and in the rear one of the
public schools Of this race, which
is so thickset in the country of
which Pate's is the centre, for,
in a small radius the bulk of the
Croatans live. In the school
were gathered the students, about
70 in number, and Their tintS ran
all the way from the deep copper
color Of the Indian to almost a
perfect white. Beautiful hair
and extremely fine eyes were
the rule and not the exception
and they carried themselves we'll.
In a little talk the writer intro
duced himself and told the pur-
pose of his visit, which was to
see them in their home and
school life, photograph them and
talk to them about their past and
their future. They were very
kind in their reception and pres
entity Preston Locklear, a very
, striking type of their people,
: drove up in his buggy andwemade
ready to make a trip through then
settlements. Locklear explained
, that his name had become corrupt
ed from Lockyer, which is very
distinctly English. We got pict
ures of the house, or rather two
l houses, occupied by Mr.. Jacobs
near the school, the people being
! ! Of the pronounced Croatan type
i the house being extremely wei
4 built of logs, with a wonderful,
4 4 clean yard of shining sand, witt
= abounding shrubbery and trees
Il and with a we'll curbed with
t cypress log and having an old
fashioned and long sweep. Mr.
!, Jacobs mother is the widow O
> one Of the oldest of the Meth
) odist preachers.
: The next place visited was tn
Il home of Harriet Graham, a coz
d little cabin, with a garden adjoir
II ing, the house of logs, and tn
II furniture all handmade, and tn
; surroundings looking very Indian
+ r like indeed. AS guides ther
l went with US two Croatan girls
), and one of these stood up wit
Z Locklear to be photographed, be
Il ing a perfect tppe of the India1
Locklear said his son was
y doctor and had been out in tn
a Indian Territory and was at one
i recognized by the Indians the1
! ! as being of their race of people
u He said his son had graduated a
IT, Baltimore. While we were PHI
+ tographing a Croatan woma
= came over from her cabin nearb
- and when asked to get in tt
~ ~ group, pulled her sunbonnet MOI
~ closely around her face and hui
A. ried away. Locklear said sh
~ ~ was frightened. She was tt
&c x only one who gave us any troub
C. e. in this respect, except RhoC
~ Lowery, who will be told abol
~, later on.
n WASHINGTON LOWERY.
e. The third place visited was Il
lg most striking of all; this being
r the home of the venerable Was
o. ington Lowery, or Lowrit
a known far and near among h
r. people as Uncle Wash" H
or home, built of logs like the res
ro embraces several buildings. al
We there was a porch of a We
ge unique design, also Of logs. T.
[e- old man was in bed, partial
N, paralyzed, but he talked We
of we'll indeed. He had a go
[c- deal to say about his people a.
he said he had heard his ''feythe
ed and Granddaughter" speak ov
MS and over again about their he
sc. ing come from Roanoke Islam
He said there was no doubt abe
~ the origin of his people, and see
&C. &c ed to be very proud of it indee
AZ AZ He referred to the fact that
e. e. had been out in the Indian II
,ne e ritory a good many years &
"a > and said he had looked into I
tho tIa question of citizenship or tri'
;nb ;ne ship there and that the India
l9m na,. had recognized him as of tn
pei people, but that their chi
hos wanted his papers to sh
rao noo whence he came. Uncle Was
,a1e nae posed for his photograph in
20 ,o doorway of his house. He v
i in seated in a homemade chair,
~ ~ seat of which was of COWS
1rd 1nd with the hair on, and all alb
,nJ I1tp inside and out were home-m;
e. 'oL furniture and appliances, {
~ ~ time things, spinning Whe