Towsey Tells of His Slavery Days: Believes he was once mortgaged to the father of Wilson
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Title
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Towsey Tells of His Slavery Days: Believes he was once mortgaged to the father of Wilson
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Publisher
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Journal Pub. Co.
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Place
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Hamilton County, OH
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Date
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28 Jul 1923
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Language
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English
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Description
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This article tells the life story of George Towsey and details his life and the life of his family under enslavement: "George Towsey, 78, colored, Long street and South avenue was sitting with his attorney in municipal court Wednesday afternoon awaiting the hearing of a civil suit in which he is suing Tiofi Golobaski for $6 commission allegedy due from a real-estate transaction. [Towsey], who has lived in Hamilton and vicinity for fifty years is widely known and is cordially greeted whenever an acquaintance chances to meet him. Towsey does not show his seven decades and more of age and is often mistaken for a man of lesser years. Towsey had quite a bit of experience in his younger days spent in slavery and retains vivid impression of incidents while still subject to a southern master. The old gentleman, liberated in accordance with the memorable proclamation of Abraham Lincoln is an eager conversationalist and especially relishes an opportunity to tell a listener of life in the old South. 'I was in slavery up till the end of the war,' Towsey commenced his short sketch of his life. Continuing he said, ' For a time my mother and I were together, were slaves for the same master; the rest of the family and my father were scatered about. During the great war I was under several masters in Boone county, Kentucky. First one would buy me and then would have to sell me because he could not afford to keep me.' Among other things Towsey said that at one time the mortgage on his mother and himself was held by a certain Joseph R. Wilson, whom [Towsey] believes to be the father of former President Woodrow Wilson. 'Yes sir, i'm older than President Wilson,' Towsey replied when asked for comparative age with the former chief executive. After the war Towsey said that the family was united for a time, but he came north. Towsey has lived in Hamilton for fifty years. He also has resided in Oxford two years and College Corner, one year."
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