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Interesting Incidents Of Civil Warlt;*Times Told By Aged Brazoria SlaveBy H. BASCOM 8IMFSON Historical Brazoria county. where thousands of TeJfas pioneers were wont to enter the new country through the Brazos river gateway and where epoch making history of our state bad much of its beginning, has today, beside* its full bids for centennial significance, the only Texas master and hte former slave still living according to local Qtemere, who have wo*claimed it throughout the state.' The master is fpnry Austin Ferry, so, of Angle ton, the oldest living relative of Stephen F. Austin- Be was horn at Peach Feint between Freeport and Brasorta in the same house where Austin onos resided-Bis - father:Wfta:Bfcephea - Ferry_ andm grandfather-wwho married Mrs. Bmily Bryan,sister of Stephen F. Austin. Bwformer slave is Joe Bee, 83, of Brazoria. whose father was captured in Africa and brought to Texas where he was sold into slavery and taken to a plantation near Columbia.Mr, Ferry recall* the turbulenttimes of fct« boyhood when his father was engaged with the conJederrates In the civil war* how he; we*left with his mother and dozens ol slaves, among whom wag Jpe Bee given him by his father for a personal servant, how he and this Joe Ue were inseparable companions, how the ngeroea remainedwith and hear the, white people aim ter the war,, and hm the■■.-MtfmA lt;m - .........
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Freeport Facts
Freeport, Texas, US
Thu, May 07, 1936
Page 5
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