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Descendants of slaves
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MACON, Ga. (AP) _ It was a search that
took Herman **Skip" Mason 30 years.
Two black families traced their genealogy
back to Middle Georgia and found them
selves finally meeting the descendants of
their ancestors’ slave owners at the site of the
old McArthur family plantation in Bibb
County.
“The ancestors in heaven are crying,” said
Mason, who is the great-great-great-grand
son of Ellen Barton, a slave owned by the
McArthurs. “We have no control over the
past, but we have very much control over
the future.”
During Saturday's reunion of about 100
people, three families met whose paths can
be traced to when Ellen Barton and Hearty
Thomas were slaves owned by the
McArthurs. The families now mostly live in
the Adanta area.
The families joined, prayed and sang
hymns. They placed flowers on the graves
of John and Harriet Pace McArthur, the
only significant remnant of the plantation.
“It's a great historic occasion,” said
Amma Crum, 69, of Jackson, the great
great-granddaughter of John and Harriet
McCarthur.
Billy Crum, also of Jackson, said he felt a
natural bond with the other families.
“We all believe in God, right? Well, we're
all brothers.”
Albert Clements, 82, whose grandmoth
er was a Barton, said he had memories of
some of the slaves honored.
“I feel great about it, just to remember,”
he said. “I've been through the good and
bad and I can tell about it all.”
Mason said he hopes to have the family
reunion in two years because more research
is needed to identify even more family con
nections and relatives.
He's delved even farther into his past _he
had a DNA test to find what African tribe
and country the Barton slaves descended
from. :
Augustine Gouayou, a member of the
Bamileke tribe from the Central African
country of Cameroon, was a 99.7 percent
blood match to Mason's. She attended the
reunion as a surprise guest.
“It’s a chilly feeling," she said. “I'm just a
bridge for them to the past.”
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