From the Ohio Historical Society is this interesting article from the Cleveland Advocate on June 26th 1920.
UNUSUAL SPECTACLE!
MACON, Ga., June 2.—-The funeral of Bettie Corner presented the unusual spectacle of white men acting as active pall bearers for a Colored woman. Miss Corner had been a servant in the Holmes family for th1rty six years, and had nursed each of the young men who bore her body to the grave. The pallbearers were the three sons and nephews of Dr. and Mrs. W.R. Holmes.
Additional reading - A complete meteorological/climate report of Texas from 1862.
Above article from Ohio Historical Society's Online Collection Catalog
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