An interview with Mrs Anna Laurie Thomas Harry a former resident of Beattie and published in the East Side Journal at Kirkland, Washington.
Story starts with her being born near St Joe, Mo during Civil War to Joseph and Elizabeth Thomas.
Associated with the story of Mrs Harry is the story of Aunty Jo, A slave nurse, who accompanied them to Missouri and then to Beattie.
Many of the slaves believing a new and richer life was in store for them, left to go out on their own but one colored woman, who loved and was loved by the Thomas family remained with them for life in faithful service. This woman, Aunty Jo, took her small daughter, Jennie, and hid in the cornfield to keep from being found by "bush-whackers", who roamed the country looting homes and driving off Negro slaves.
Aunty Jo became the nurse of Annie Laura Thomas, and she and her daughter moved to Missouri with the Thomas family.
Shortly after this Joseph Thomas died and Mrs Betsy Thomas gathered the rest of her family and took the railroad from St Joe to Grand Island, Nebraska. She purchased a homesteaders claim and lived their until she died in 1890.
Aunty Jo and Jennie then moved to Beattie to stay with Mrs Harry. When A few years later Aunty Jo died she was laid to rest in the Thomas plot beside her "Miss Betsy" in the Beattie Cemetery, the only colored person to be buried in the cemetery.
I found no stone in the cemetery for Aunty Jo.
Story starts with her being born near St Joe, Mo during Civil War to Joseph and Elizabeth Thomas.
Associated with the story of Mrs Harry is the story of Aunty Jo, A slave nurse, who accompanied them to Missouri and then to Beattie.
Many of the slaves believing a new and richer life was in store for them, left to go out on their own but one colored woman, who loved and was loved by the Thomas family remained with them for life in faithful service. This woman, Aunty Jo, took her small daughter, Jennie, and hid in the cornfield to keep from being found by "bush-whackers", who roamed the country looting homes and driving off Negro slaves.
Aunty Jo became the nurse of Annie Laura Thomas, and she and her daughter moved to Missouri with the Thomas family.
Shortly after this Joseph Thomas died and Mrs Betsy Thomas gathered the rest of her family and took the railroad from St Joe to Grand Island, Nebraska. She purchased a homesteaders claim and lived their until she died in 1890.
Aunty Jo and Jennie then moved to Beattie to stay with Mrs Harry. When A few years later Aunty Jo died she was laid to rest in the Thomas plot beside her "Miss Betsy" in the Beattie Cemetery, the only colored person to be buried in the cemetery.
I found no stone in the cemetery for Aunty Jo.
An interview with Mrs Anna Laurie Thomas Harry a former resident of Beattie and published in the East Side Journal at Kirkland, Washington.
Story starts with her being born near St Joe, Mo during Civil War to Joseph and Elizabeth Thomas.
Associated with the story of Mrs Harry is the story of Aunty Jo, A slave nurse, who accompanied them to Missouri and then to Beattie.
Many of the slaves believing a new and richer life was in store for them, left to go out on their own but one colored woman, who loved and was loved by the Thomas family remained with them for life in faithful service. This woman, Aunty Jo, took her small daughter, Jennie, and hid in the cornfield to keep from being found by "bush-whackers", who roamed the country looting homes and driving off Negro slaves.
Aunty Jo became the nurse of Annie Laura Thomas, and she and her daughter moved to Missouri with the Thomas family.
Shortly after this Joseph Thomas died and Mrs Betsy Thomas gathered the rest of her family and took the railroad from St Joe to Grand Island, Nebraska. She purchased a homesteaders claim and lived their until she died in 1890.
Aunty Jo and Jennie then moved to Beattie to stay with Mrs Harry. When A few years later Aunty Jo died she was laid to rest in the Thomas plot beside her "Miss Betsy" in the Beattie Cemetery, the only colored person to be buried in the cemetery.
I found no stone in the cemetery for Aunty Jo.
Story starts with her being born near St Joe, Mo during Civil War to Joseph and Elizabeth Thomas.
Associated with the story of Mrs Harry is the story of Aunty Jo, A slave nurse, who accompanied them to Missouri and then to Beattie.
Many of the slaves believing a new and richer life was in store for them, left to go out on their own but one colored woman, who loved and was loved by the Thomas family remained with them for life in faithful service. This woman, Aunty Jo, took her small daughter, Jennie, and hid in the cornfield to keep from being found by "bush-whackers", who roamed the country looting homes and driving off Negro slaves.
Aunty Jo became the nurse of Annie Laura Thomas, and she and her daughter moved to Missouri with the Thomas family.
Shortly after this Joseph Thomas died and Mrs Betsy Thomas gathered the rest of her family and took the railroad from St Joe to Grand Island, Nebraska. She purchased a homesteaders claim and lived their until she died in 1890.
Aunty Jo and Jennie then moved to Beattie to stay with Mrs Harry. When A few years later Aunty Jo died she was laid to rest in the Thomas plot beside her "Miss Betsy" in the Beattie Cemetery, the only colored person to be buried in the cemetery.
I found no stone in the cemetery for Aunty Jo.
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