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Charlevoix County Herald (East Jordan, MI)
Description
An account of the resource
1918
Text
Newspaper advertisements
State
Colorado
Virginia
Missouri
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Rev. J. Preston Watson reunited with friend Thomas Gannon
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Rev. J. Preston Watson, sold on the auction block many times, ran away from his owner and was taken in by Captain Thomas Gannon of the Ninth Missouri Cavalry for the duration of the war.
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Charlevoix County Herald (East Jordan, MI)
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December 27, 1918
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Bonnie Loden
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress
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Pueblo, CO
Lynchburg, VA
Bowling Green, MO
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NEGRO FINDS MAN HE
SERVED IN WAR
Search of Nearly Fifty Years Ends
Successfully for Old Negro.
Pueblo, Col.––A revival of old mem-
ories [memories], harking back to the ante-bellum
days, when he as a boy was sold many
times on the auction block as a chat-
tel [chattel], and finally at the age of 17, learn-
ed [learned] of the war to free the negroes, he
escaped from his master and found
refuge in a camp of Federal soldiers,
was occasioned to the mind of Rev.
J. Preston Watson by the receipt of a
letter from Thomas Gannon, an old
soldier now residing at Monte Vista,
Colo.
It was Gannon, then a First Lieu-
tenant [Lieutenant] in the Ninth Missouri Cavalry
and later promoted to Captain, 54
years ago, who formed a liking for the
fugitive colored boy and took him in.
Throughout the war until the close
four years later, Watson remained
with Gannon. Then they separated,
with the understanding that Watson
was to go to Gannon's home and un-
der [under] his instructions. learn the tinner's
trade.
But alternating circumstances inter-
vened [intervened]. Although in the intervening
years each frequently tried to find a
trace of the other, their efforts prov-
ed [proved] in vain until two years ago Wat-
son [Watson], then a veteran pastor, who had
done nearly 40 years' service for the
African Methodist church, learned
that Capt. Gannon was living near
Leadville. This being in the district
which Watson toured as presiding el-
der [elder], he renewed his search, and fin-
ally [finally] found Capt. Gannon, a feeble,
gray haired man.
gray haired man.
“Of course neither of us knew the
other," says the Rev. Mr. Watson.
"When I knew Gannon in war times
he was a square shouldered young
man, with a long black mustache and
bushy black hair. Half a century lat-
er [later] I found him an old man, little re-
sembling [resembling] his former self. But the old
friendship was still there. He seemed
mighty glad to see me, and for two
hours we talked over old times. Then
later he came to my house and we
sat up all night long talking old
times."
Reminiscently in his letter Gannon
said: "Again I recall an incident––
the negro boy who wandered into
camp, a fugitive from slavery, meek,
humble, seeking protection. My boys
in blue treated him with kindness and
sympathy and I soon realized his
faithful services; honest, truthful, and
diligent, employing his leisure mo-
ments [moments] in the efforts to learn to read
that he might be helpful to his fel-
low [fellow] free men. Now how well he has
succeeded. From an humble servant
to a devoted servant of the Lord and
zealous in the uplift of his people."
Born in Lynchburg, Va., Watson
was sold when a baby with his moth-
er [mother] to Robert Barnett, Bowling Green,
Pike county, Missouri. When four
years old his mother died, and from
that time until ten he was sold five
times on the auction block in Mis-
souri [Missouri].
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African Methodist Episcopal Church
Civil War
contrabands
found
minister
runaway
self-emancipation
slave trade