Henry Boyer, aged one hundred and three years, died at the home of his son, Henry Boyer Jr., on South Kansas Street, yesterday morning at ten o'clock. Henry Boyer was born in Hancock county, Georgia on October 29th 1822 on the plantation of Elias Boyer. His mother was Aggie Boyer, she being a slave who was born in Africa and brought to America by the early slaveholders. He was married to Hester Hill and from this union there are surviving four sons, John, Henry Jr., Robert S, and Frank. Also one daughter Mrs. M. V. Johnson. He also leaves thirty-eight grandchildren. He was a member of the African Baptist Church, having joined them in 1876. Funeral services will be held tomorrow, afternoon at two thirty o’clock from the Colored Baptist Church with Rev. Wm. Profitt in charge of same and burial will be at Sout Park.
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Publish Feb. 23, Mar. 2,1979 NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION OF PROPERTY ACQUIRED BY THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO BY TAX DEEDS NEWMEXICO DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & REVENUE PROPERTY TAX DIVISION SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO Pursuant to Section 72834, NMSA 1953, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, in accordance with the Provisions of Section 72 8 33, NMSA 1953, The Property Tax Division of the New Mexico Department of Taxation and Revenue will offer for sale at Public Auction beginning on March 12,1979, at 9:00 A.M.,,at the Chaves County Courthouse in Roswell, New Mexico, the following described property, the sale to continue until all the described property has been offered lor sale THE TERMS OF THE SALE ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. The property is sold subject to Improvement and conservancy district liens, and to easements ol any telephone, telegraph, transmission or pipeline company, or any irrigation or drainage ditch or road. 2. Successful bidders are required to pay the full amount bid before leaving the premises on the day ol the sale, by money order, certified check, cashier's check or personal checks which are accompanied by bank letter of credit, for the amount of or in excess of the amount of the personal check, drawn to the order of the New Mexico Department of Taxation and Revenue. 3. Sections 72 7 37, 72 7 38, and 72 8 4 NMSA 19S3, Prohibit the taxing authorities or any other persons employed in any capacity by the Stale, any County, or any Municipality from, directly or indirectly purchasing or having any interest in property sold at this auction. Those sections provide criminal and civil penalties for their violation, including jail, line and removal from off ice. 4 PROPERTY PURCHASEDAT AUCTION SUBJECT TOTAX: Section 72 8 37 NMSA 1953, provides that purchasers of property at this auction are deemed to have acquired the taxable interest in the property as of the 1st day of the month following the date of purchase and the tax on the property is to be paid in proportion to the number ol months remaining in this fax year. Therealter. the property is subject to fax in the same manner as other property. 5 GENERAL: A. The purchase price ot property is not to be taken or considered as being the value ol such property lor Assessment Purposes. B. The property as it appears on the tax deed may or may not be accurate in total number acres, dimensions or existence ol improvements on parcels sold by the Property Tax Division. C. The Stale of New Mexico warrants no title to properties purchased at public auction sale. D. IDENTIFICATION All purchasers are required to have a bidder number to bid giving full name and address E. ADDITION TO OR WITHDRAWAL FROM SALE The auctioneer reserves the right to withdraw from sale any of the items listed and also reserves the right to group one or more lots into one or more selling lots or to subdivide into two or more selling lots. The auctioneer reserves the right to sell all of the items listed, in bulk. F. DISPUTE BETWEEN BIDDERS If any dispute arises between two or more bidders, the auctioneer may decide the same or may immediately put the lot up lor sale again, and resell to the highest bidder. The decision of the auctioneer shall be FINAL and ABSOLUTE. G. RESERVE The auctioneer reserves the right to reject any and all bids H. COMPLIANCE WITH TERMS OF SALE In default ol payment of bills in lull within fhe time herein specified The auctioneer in addition to all other remedies allowed by law may retain all lots not paid for AND REMOVED WITHIN THE TIME SPECIFIED HEREIN AND MAY BE RESOLD AT PUBLJJ SALE WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE AND DEFICIENCY, TOGETHER WITH ALL EXPENSES AND CHARGES OF RE SALE MAY BE CHARGED TOTHE DEFAULTING PURCHASER. 6. REDEMPTION PERIOD The redemption or repurchase period for the assessed owner or holder of an interest ceases when the property has been offered for sale and sold to the highest bidder at that sale. 7. REFUNDS Section 72 8 40 NMSA 19S3, provides that the department may refund the amount received Irom a purchaser at this auction ONLY IF: A. The deed from the State to the Purchaser In Invalid or illegal: AND B. The Refund Is requested within One ll) year Irom the date the deed Is executed. DONE AT SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, THIS 1st DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1979 NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND REVENUE 1 PROPERTY TAX DIVISION 's/Cecil J. Pickett, Director A list of the property fo be sold, giving fhe name of fhe person or persons whose name the property was formerly assessed, and the tax deed number, followed by the description of the property exactly as It appears on the tax deed to the State, as Follows: (SEAL) CHAVES SALE LIST NAME: TAX DEED L.W.Fristoe& Priscilla B. Moody 04 1966 1484 Sallie Burleson. Est ,°o Clarence Craft 0419741687 DESCRIPTION MINIMUMBID
During the reconstruction period following the Civil War, many of the freed slaves homestead government land were given land by their former masters. Not all the slaves left their masters because of the security they had by staying on and working, not as a slave, but as a freed laborer.
A few of the freed slaves who were living in this area settled land in the Arkadelphia area and established their own community now and known as the Colony.
Today, these are the only colored people that live in this county. Some work in the city in various homes, but for the most part, the Negroes of Cullman County either farm in their community or work in coal mines in Cullman, Walker, and Jefferson Counties.
Amony the 359 residents of the Colony, there is one who can still recall slave days. She is 104-year old Kizzy Leeth who lives with a son in the eastrn part of the Colony. There seems to be no permanent record on her birth but she does remember being sold to the Leeth family of Cullman County at Blountsville. She also recalls when she received her freedom.
According to “Aunt Kiz”, as she is popularly known to most of the folks, both white and colored, her father was a slave a t Blountsville, belonging to the Montgomery family. Most who know h e r say, "Aunt Kiz has delivered more babies in her lifetime than any doctor of the county. For many years, she has been licensed to deliver babies and people from far and n e a r have come to her for this service. She has delivered both white and colored.
The story of this Colony dates back to the year 1869. It was in this year that the first two settlers, Dave Rodgers and Tom Sapp, homesteaded 80 acres each from the government. From then on, Negroes from all parts of the state began settling in the Colony area. The population had grown to approximately 500 by 1939.
Early settlers in the Colony built their log cabins and set in to farming the land they had accumulated through homesteading and gifts from their masters. Problems of these freed slaves were numerous because they had always worked for someone else and were having a hard time getting started or[sic] themselves.
With a new community born and growing rapidly, there became a need for religion. The first church established in the Colony was the Methodist-Episcopal Church. Rev. Walter Drennen, a white minister from Arkadelphia, was the first Pastor of the colored church. At first, services were held in the open under the trees and later, a small log hut was built to keep off the weather.
Today, there are two church groups in the Colony. They are the Methodist and Baptist Churches. The Baptist Church was organized in 1893 by Rev. Enoch Garrett, one of the original settlers of the Colony.
A few years before the turn of the century, the Negroes of the Colony began to see a need for educating their children. They established the Colony school and Benjamin Fields, one of the early settlers, was selected to be the school master. Classes were first held in the Methodist Church which did not even have a floor. The class was very small and there were no school books.
In the Colony today, the children can get a complete grade and high school education without leaving their own community. In the history of the high school, there have been 40 graduated and nine out of the 40 graduates have gone to college.
The Colony School is in the Cullman County School system. There are 83 children in the elementary school and the same number of students in the high school. For the twelve grades at the Colony School, there were 6 rooms and 6 teachers. The oldest teacher at the school is Mrs. Bessie Lyles who has been teaching there for 22 years. She teaches the first and second grades.
Friday’s are special days for the citizens of the Colony. During the afternoon, the students get to see movies and the adults visit the school on Friday nights for a regular feature length movie and the adults visit the school on Friday nights for a regular feature length movie.
Their school is average to the ordinary country school in Cullman County. Like all other schools, they are lacking in many facilities but manage to get by with what they have. The school principal, Mr. Lorenzo Wyatt, is continuously striving toward a better education for the pupils of his school. He works closely with the local PTA and the (Continued On Page Four)
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ARTESIA -- A short time ago the Negro preacher from Blackdom, a Negro settlement in Chaves Count, came to Artesia to solicit funds for a new church. He received a liberal response to his plea for donations and went home well pleased with the consideration given him, but there are no Negroes residing in this town. Artesia is the only town of any size in New Mexico where colored race is absolutely barred out.
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