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Former slave knew area plantations, Civil WarBy H.B. SIMPSON His name was Joe Lee. It was In 1855 when he was nine years old that he began to saddle horses and do special things lor Henry Austin Perry, 11, son of S. S. and Sarah Perry of Peach Point, owners of one of Brazoria County’splantations more than 100 years ago.The young Perry’s father had given Joe to him as his personal servant, subject to his commands and wishes. Joe was ope of Ihe boys of a slave family .Owned by the Perrya.;; Henry would take VJoewith him In roaming over the plantation, hunting in the woods of what is now Jones Creek, and going to other places of his choosing on and around the large plantation.Joe liked his master very much, and in his naturally impulsive and blusterous way was very attentive to him. He usually talked rapidly, and in a kind of brogue that was sometimes not easily understood by those not well acquainted with him.VISIT WITH JOE ’ In the centennial year of Texas independence, whenstories of the state’s early Incidents were especially in demand, I visited Joe at his home on the bank of the Brazos River not far from Brazoria.He had Just come in from riding a horse bareback in looking after some cattle for a neighbor in a nearby pasture, we sat on his porch, in front of which was his small garden with a variety of vegetables In it.Do you work the garden yourself? I asked His wife answered for him; lt;‘He does, but at 91 years of . age he is not as strong ashe used to be. When he ploughs a round, he has to stop and rest but he surely does good work, you can tell by looking out there.”They lived In a small unpalnted house on about five acres given to him, Mrs. Adelle P. Caldwell safd, by Ihe Perrys.Joe would ride a horse along the Brazos River to about where the Perry's Landing used to be and turn up the narrow lane to Highway 36 where he would visit with the late S. S. Perry II, for whom he had worked. . -.Perry generally gave him some\+ • r.: ^ ‘ ^ ;IHE MARKET PLACE FOR REAL ESTATE IN BRAZORIA COUNTY ISBRAZORIA COUNTYBOARD OF REALTORSLook For This Emblem Of ExcellenceEvery person who invests in well selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming Independent, for real estate is the basis of our wealth,*'Theodore RooseveltBuild Your Future WithReal EstateIf YOU’VE PROPERTY TO SELL.CALL A REALTOR THEY ARE EXPERTS. THEY KNOW HOW TO ACHIEVE MAXIMUM RESULT POWER FOR THEIR SELLERSREALTOR® MEMBERSHIP BRAZORIA COUNTY BOARD Of REALTORSABC Realty 233*5313Rotort F. Jordan :AmtfkioReally 245*2526Cturlw CaillibtrrY' AndanonandAsioc............. 265-1144Robed M. 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Johnson ............. 297-4391PaulLaffaIda ..■ *449.324$Loll Rent ay. «• * p»■«1«lt;•« 233*3704Bill Belpard. ##.,,•lt;......... 297*1051• John P, . Miid.oi ,m 449-2431Robert E. Franklin..,, • • • 297*2425DaysoitOoetz........ W7-M51Russell Schoenbaechler- - * ■ *...... .349*5714Hazel4*Fleminp »»».*,,297*4444 J. Llt; DoruflhayJohn O. Terrell.429*5250urticles he needed lo help him as he got older.CIVIL WAR TIMESIn telling of his early life, Joe said he recalled during the Civil War that boats would come up the Brazos River and some of the Confederate soldiers would fell about blocking the Union soldiers from coming Inland from the Gulf of Mexico.It was exciting times, he recalled. Farming on theElnntolions was hindered ut not stopped because the slaves at that time did . most of the work in raising cotton, ribbon cane and ^other'prdducts.Ox teams pulled wagon l’loads of cotton to Mexico,A. A. Platter, who recently wrote a history of Brazoria County, stated, because the Union army ships blocked sailings out at sea.He noted tiiat Aycock's Landing, then Gulf Prairie Landing, that in about 1856 S. S. Perry I bought It and changed the name to Perry's Landing.Some of the BrazoriaCounty men who were among the Confederate army leaders he named as Frank Terry, a planter of Brazoria and Wharton Counties who organized the flth Texas Cavalry called Terry’s Texas Rangers; General John Wharton of Eagle (aland; and Albert Sidney Johnston, a Confederategeneral who died during the battle of Shiloh.John Dtmn, well informed In many historical events, said tnat besides .several forts in Galveston (then the largest city in Texas) there were a number of forts in Brazoria County, one about where is now the • Freeport Coast Guard ..-Station; another, called Mud port, near the presept. large bridge over the ui-traccastal canal; one at the bend of the Old River, just below the Phillips Petroleum Co. docks; and one near San Luis Island.BOATS SUNK .Dunn mentioned that the Cruiser Alabama, a Confederate boat built in England, sank 47 Union cargo ships/one boat, the Narragansett, a side wheel paddle steamer going down to the Gulf about 13 miles from Velasco port.The Alabama was quite a raider, and after the war [- England was blamed for thus helping the southern army to deal heavy Wows to shipping. But this was ap: ' instance where negotiations proved very k successful, one of the first, for early times.Skin divers, Dunn said, are believed to have found the hull of. the Narragansett a few yearsago,Even though the Union army had the port of GaJveeton blockaded, then was some light boat trafficbetween Velasco am Galveston by way of t shallow canal (a part 0. which was afterwards made into the intracoasta canal l leading into Wes’ Bay where the larger boak could not be manipulate effectively.Backbone c(Continued from Page 2)beautiful furniture, dee carpets and other thing she had always dreamed ( using in furnishing Peac Point.The family importi newspapers, too, wi some coming from as U away as Kentucky. Othe were from New Orlean with the family a): subscribing to several the early Tex^ newspapers, which wei described by a Lculslai writer of that day as U beat country newspaper be found anywhere.Entertainment took on more important aspect i Peach Point during thoj years, too, with ho seracing heading the list • favorite pastimes there 1OWNERS: BOB PAUUI O'HARADOWNTOWNLAKE,JACKSON j209 Parking | Way R297-2469 C:: r:: ■r-. :
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Freeport Brazosport Facts
Freeport, Texas, US
Sun, Jun 20, 1976
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