Freedom Colonies of Texas
Includes 8 Counties
Profiled by David Pasztor
June 2024 - TEXAS CO-OP POWER
BLUEBONNET ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
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Caldwell Descendants of the Freedom Colony Settlers gather on the third Sunday in June to celebrate
Juneteenth, June 19, 1865,
when the end of slavery in Texas was officially anounced by Union forces that landed in Galveston.
It has been celebrated here at St. John Colony in the rural area of Caldwell for more than 150 years.
Vessie Tutt
at the St. John School Museum sits next to an undated photo of her parents and yournger sister:
The Rev. Silas Leonard 'S.L.' Davis, Willie Thompson Davis and Barbara Davis Dotson. Tutt's parents
were second generation residents of St. John Colony.
The "Pioneers of Caldwell County" is a project
of The Genealogical and Historical Society of Caldwell County.