{"id":1205,"date":"2012-07-20T14:48:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2023-03-28T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:10:51","slug":"102-year-old-ex-slave-once-shook-abraham-lincolns-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/102-year-old-ex-slave-once-shook-abraham-lincolns-hand.html","title":{"rendered":"102-Year-Old Ex-Slave Once Shook Abraham Lincoln\u2019s Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran across this interesting obituary in an old newspaper today. It ended with this line: \u201cShe once shook hands with Abraham Lincoln.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1912, or even today, it would be impressive to know someone who shook hands with a President\u2014especially one of the stature of Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n

There were, no doubt, many highlights over the course of Mrs. Catharine Pride\u2019s 102 years. She was born an African American slave in Virginia in 1810, and after the Civil War had lived in Germantown, Pennsylvania, for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n

Now\u2014put that in context. She was born an African American slave and she had the opportunity to meet and shake hands with Abraham Lincoln, the man who freed the slaves. It must have been a very powerful moment.<\/p>\n

\"Catherine<\/a><\/p>\n

Reclaim your ancestors\u2019 stories and make sure the family knows the details of your ancestors\u2019 lives, like this obituary of Mrs. Catharine Pride published in the Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 19 January 1912, page 7.<\/p>\n

You can discover a wealth of information in our full historical newspaper archives<\/a> or explore only your African American ancestry in our African American Newspaper Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran across this interesting obituary in an old newspaper today. It ended with this line: \u201cShe once shook hands with Abraham Lincoln.\u201d In 1912, or even today, it would be impressive to know someone who shook hands with a President\u2014especially one of the stature of Abraham Lincoln. There were, no doubt, many highlights over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[938,64,1688,3,2145,5290,422,1129,2146,1163,1689,33,1699,442],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-african-american","tag-african-american-newspapers-2","tag-ancestry","tag-catharine-pride","tag-civil","tag-civil-war","tag-family","tag-germantown","tag-philadelphia","tag-president","tag-slavery","tag-slavery-in-the-united-states","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90353,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/90353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}