MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GA - Obits  Clapp, Julius R.

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From the "Columbus, Georgia, Daily Enquirer" newspaper, Tuesday, 05 SEP 1876:


"Funeral of Mr. J. R. CLAPP:  The remains of
Superintendent CLAPP, of the Columbus factory,
were buried Sunday.  The funeral took place at
his late residence [at Clapp's Factory].  Many
attended.  The pall bearers were J. Rhodes
BROWNE, Chas. WISE, John PEABODY, George W.
DILLINGHAM, Perry SPENCER, Dr. E. F. COLZEY.
Rev. Dr. J. S. KEY conducted the services.  A
touching scene was the grief manifested at his
loss by former slaves.  An old woman with her
daughter and grandchildren, who has never left
the deceased gentleman, though freedom to blacks
has been declared here eleven years, wept most
bitterly at the loss they had sustained of their
truest friend.  Thus honored, passed from sight
one of those true men who had honored and
illustrated our section."


Notes: Rev. Dr. J. S. KEY was pastor of St. Luke
Methodist Church in Columbus. It is not clear who
the "old woman with her daughter and
grandchildren" is. Present in J. R. CLAPP's 1870
household in Muscogee Co, GA, were the following
Black individuals:  Sanford EVANS?, age 25, b.
AL, and Jane EVANS?, age 21, b. GA (both domestic
servants), and Frederick CLAPP, age 7, b. GA -
are these former slaves of the CLAPP family?  


There is an oral tradition in my family that
someone in the management at Clapp's Factory
tried to prevent the Yankees from setting the
mill building on fire.  He was strung up to be
hanged, but he was so beloved by his slaves that
he was cut down and saved (this story is strictly
anecdotal).  If true, this tale could easily be
about Julius R. CLAPP.


Note also that Tucker CLAPP, a Colored man, was
sentenced in the Muscogee County Superior Court
to five years in the penitentiary, having been
convicted of burglary in the night (per the
"Columbus, GA, Daily Sun" newspaper, Saturday, 07
JAN 1871).  Was Tucker a former slave of the J.
R. CLAPP family or connected to them in some way?