Description
Jim Weston, colored, a familiar figure around Weston, recently died in Kansas City. Born of slave parents in 1854, the property of the Owens family -- Mrs. Lydia Hillix and Frankie Owens are daughters of the original owners of these colored people (John Thomas Owens and Minerva Owens of Camden Point). Following Emancipation the elder Owens gave each servant tracts of land, so Jim Weston made his home on a plot near Woodruff. He was buried in Graceland Cemetery at Weston, where he had been caretaker until too feeble to work. (Jim Weston died at 99 years old. His wife Edith Weston died at 46 years old of tuberculosis on July 17, 1920.)Date(s) of Creation
2/12/1953
