The original owner of Bluebird Farm, the property currently owned by Dwayne Hoover and his family. Josephus was a freed slave who purchased the farm after moving North to work in the factories. His descendants ran the farm until the bank foreclosed on the mortgage during the Depression. A wealthy white man bought the farm, but he lost it in an out-of-court settlement with Dwayne’s stepfather after running him over with his car.
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Chapter 13
...City. The property, known as Bluebird Farm, was originally owned by a freed slave name Josephus Hoobler . Josephus’s descendants ran the farm until the Great Depression when it was foreclosed on...
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