Union County OhArchives Obituaries.....Johnson, A. J. July 5, 1895
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Union County Journal, July 11, 1895
A. J. Johnson, colored, aged 54, died and was buried Friday.  His funeral was 
preached by Rev. Culfer, of North Lewisburg.  The pall bearers were colored and 
the escort was the members of Livingston Post G. A. R., he having been a member 
of the order. It was the finest and best mixture of the white and black races 
that ever took place in Richwood. Commander Jacobs was in command and was 
assisted by comrades S. D. Evans, John Aller and Jno. Stubert, Capt. Hamilton 
acting as chaplain. This threw Hamilton in close proximity to the minister in 
charge and they stood side by side at the open grave and announced the last sad 
duties to a deceased soldier and comrade in the post, and it was natural that 
the mind go back to the time in 1862 when this same chaplain was so severely 
abused for sending a slave boy from Kentucky to Richwood and the scenes that it 
made among his former friends and neighbors, and then of the scene of 1895, 
when an audience of whites and blacks were mingling their voices over the 
remains of a colored man and deceased soldier.

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