Caldwell County MO Archives History .....AN OLD COLORED AUNTIE AND UNCLE IN BRECKENRIDGE 
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AN OLD COLORED AUNTIE AND UNCLE IN BRECKENRIDGE
	Narrator:  Mrs. Helen Kirtley, 66, Breckenridge

     Mrs. Kirtley lived most of her life in Breckenridge having been Helen 
Leeper before her marriage.  She was well acquainted with the Mrs. Terrill 
mentioned below.  She also knew well both the familiar negro characters 
mentioned by her.
     Aunt Katie Douglas was the oldest colored person in Breckenridge at her 
death 1901.  She was born in Kentucky 1818.  She was a typical before the war 
aunty and all respected her.  She had a son who was a slave of the parents of 
Mrs. Terrill and he came as a present with the Terrill family when they came 
into the pioneer life of the Breckenridge community before the town was even 
dreamed of.  Aunt Katie also belonged to the parents of Mrs. Terrill and she 
stayed with them.  After the war, when the darkies were freed, William the son 
out in Missouri went back to Ky. and brought both his parents to spend their 
lives near Mrs. Terrill, for Aunt Katie had been her nurse as a child.
     Aother old time negro in that town was Uncle Bob Peyton, a very Southern 
type of slave uncle.  Most of the ex-slave negroes in this county were 
Missouri bred, if not born here, hence they lacked many of the unique 
characteristics of the real Southern negroes which both Aunt Kate and Uncle 
Bob had in large measure.
     On the occasion of the funerals of both these darkies, many white people 
went to the funerals, and even sent flowers.
     (For a paper on the Terrill family, see the 1934 series)
     Interview  1933.


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