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Elsewhere in today’s paper will be found an interesting, if not edifying, ac count of the death, at Asbury Parl, of William T. Evans, former body-servant of General Robert J3. Lee. The publica tion is taken from the Evening Press of that place, and the reporter tells us that this old negro gentleman was too revered and aristocratic to mingle with the northern “colored trash, “as he called the new issue negroes of that section; and so he lived much unto himself. ‘This may have been written In jest, but It is a graphic pen picture of that type of the southern slave, so-called, and no splendid tribute to his character. This was the aristocracy which comes of good breed ing and refined association, and of ne cessity it made him particular about the company he kept. He never forgot his raising. He was connected with ‘the Lees of Virginia,’ and he realized the honor and responsibility of the tie. This observation of the New Jersey reporter does not surprise us, although it is a revelation that Evans “witnessed the hanging of John Brown and four other negroes.”
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Richmond Times Dispatch
Richmond, Virginia, US
Thu, Nov 09, 1905
Page 7
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