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Re: looking 4 pics of old moyers

KarenMillert505pggtll6ng9tfjp4fcv5ofq9n  (View posts) Posted: 23 May 2009 9:56PM GMT
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Katy, I don't have a picture of the Moyers train depot, but I can tell you a story about it. It is a little startling, so keep in mind that it was nearly a hundred years ago. My grandmother, who was born in 1907,told me that when she was a child, the train came through Moyers. If a Black person got off of the train, Mr. Robinson, the station master, would lock them in a room in the train station overnight. When the train came through the next day, they could get back on. She said, matter of factly, "They didn't mistreat 'em or anything, they give 'em a blanket and a towel and a basin to wash in, and they brung 'em food from the restaurant across the street." Her brothers would sneak out and stand on a wooden box to peer into the window at the Black passengers, but once when she tried it her mother caught her and whipped her for it. So your train station-house is part of one of the sadder chapters of our American story. If you do find a picture, please post it on the Pushmata County Genweb page, for all of us to see.
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katyscorner 10 Jun 2008 2:20AM GMT 
KarenMillert5... 23 May 2009 9:56PM GMT 
   

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