Juneteenth

Newspaper article brings to light memories of slavery

By Murray Montgomery - Staff Writer Years ago, I came across a story about an ex-slave in a Gonzales Inquirer newspaper from 1959. The article was about a woman named Ada Stone.According to the Inquirer article, Stone was over 100 years old when interviewed.

Juneteenth: A day that set all slaves free

The Civil War started in 1861 and was considered the bloodiest and most divisive conflict in American History.The war, which resulted in over 620 million people dying and millions more injured, pitted the Union Army against the Confederate States of America.

Former Slave Recalls Memories of Old Lavaca County

In 1946, a black man by the name of Tate Hicks told a local paper that he was the oldest man in Lavaca County. Fact is, he came to Texas as a slave and as was the practice back then he took the last name of the man who owned him, that person being A.W.