Saturday August 26, 1882
The picnic of the colored folks given by Mary Sauers and A. Casmir on
Wed. was well attended, buggies, shays, springwagons and thumping
wagons were in mothin all day and the festive carousel was kept up until
"daylight did appear" as usual.

Saturday Sept. 9, 1882
DEP, Frank Babb's colored driver-and a good driver is Dep, Frank
says-was very near being dragged to shreds last Sunday. Driving along
somewhere along the River aux Vases, the reins broke and in trying to
regain his hold of the end, Dep scared the beasts, so that they set off
at a full speed upsetting the buggy and dragging the hapless driver for
some distance. The top of the buggy was entirely ruined and the driver
much bruised about the face and hip. Last Sunday night Louis D. Thurman
arrested a colored man, SAMUEL J. CASEY, al. CHAS. PETIT, who is
suspected of being the murderer of Dr. Crawford. Several persons say
they can identify him as the man who was last seen in old Uncle George's
company.

Saturday March 13, 1886
The love of colored folks for dancing is illustrated by the conduct of the
fiddlers at the Maroon dance. After playing hard until after midnight they
rode six miles to a colored ball and danced until half-past 7 the next morning.

Nov 12, 1892
The infant son of JOSEPH JOHNSON (colored) died last friday and was
buried on Saturday.

Mar. 6, 1909
ANTOINE GOVRO-colored was brought here from St. Mary's Monday to
have the County Court inquire as to his sanity. The court found the old
man very feebleminded but not in a condition to warrant his removal to the asylum and was placed on the County Farm.

Former slave dies Mar. 1916. On Tue. the 28th, PERRY SHORES (colored),
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hen. Booker. The old man would have been 85 years old next Christmas according to his count and he was known
to all the residents of the hill and to all the older white people of the
community. And it was a frequent statement among his white friends that
if there ever was a christian colored man, Perry Shores was the man, all of
which is a mighty nice thing to have said about one whether he was white
or colored. Shores during slavery days is said to have belonged to the Washington County family of Shores.