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From: "Mike & Kathy Bowlin" <>
Subject: Re: [MOHOWARD-L] GATEWOOD JOHNSON
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:30:22 -0600
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Carolyn, and others interested.

I have three Tarlton Johnson's in my database. One is the child of William
Johnson and Sarah Gatewood. One is the father-in-law of Augustine Gatewood.
The other is so far unconnected, but I suspect he is a brother of Mrs.
Augustine Gatewood, who was Marium Johnson before her marriage to Augustine.
I've got another little tidbit to add to this unusual family grouping. It
concerns the slave schedule for this Gatewood widow. It was chilling for me
to read, and I still don't understand just what it means. I have left my
notes intact on this one, which is just my own speculation. These are wild
guesses on my part, and not intended as facts. However, the slave schedule
itself, and all the facts about it, are accurate.

1850 US Census Slave Schedule, Howard county, Missouri.
Marium Gatewood No. of Slaves Age Sex
Color
1 12
Male Black
1 12
Male Black
1 10
Female Black
1 11
Female Black
1 9
Male Black
1 9
Male Black
1 8
Female Black
1 7
Male Black
1 5
Male Black
1 7
Female Black
1 5
Male Black
1 2
Female Mulatto
1 2
Female Mulatto
1 ???
Male Black
(the age 2 or three digits,
not sure)
1 1
Male Black
1 4
Male Black
1 20
Female Black
1 72
Male Mulatto
1 5
Male Black
(Note: read by me from the original microfilm, on 2 Sep 2000, at the
Independence, MO, library. A transcript in my files. It is odd, to me,
that the slaves are almost exclusively children. What possible purpose did
they serve? Did she have a factory of some sort that required small
fingers? Did she lease them out for work in the coal mines? There are only
two adults positively identified. A 20 year old female and a 72 year old
male. So it can't be a breeding farm. There aren't enough females. The 20
year old black female may be the mother of the 2 year old twin mulatto
girls. If so, they had a white father. Marium's husband had been dead five
years, and her son was two young to have fathered children at this point.
Who was the father? Or did she buy children, and raise them up to sell as
adult stock, much like cattle is done today.)

I thought at first, that the adult female might be the slave Priscilla,
mentioned in the following deed, given to Augustine by his father, Richard
Gatewood, for the benefit of his sister Jane, but Priscilla would have been
older than 20 in 1850.

Howard Co, Mo, Deed book L, pg 406, dated 27 Feb 1832 . Richard Gatewood
deeded one slave named Priscilla and all of her issue to Augustine Gatewood,
his son. The condition was that all profit from this slave was to be given
to his sister Jane and her children, who had married a man named P. Elvan
Allen. I gather from the wording, that Richard did not approve of the
marriage and did not trust Mr. Allen with the gift.

Kathy Bowlin


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