Missouri
St. Louis woman traces her ancestral slave roots through central Missouri – Missourinet
From ancestral discoveries to creating awareness to seeking post-conviction relief, one St. Louis woman is working to honor her family by raising awareness about the legacy of racism and slavery.
Pamela Westbrooks-Hodge discovered that she is related to Celia, a Callaway County slave, who was executed in 1855 after defending herself against her owner. According to Westbrooks-Hodge, Celia was purchased by Robert Newsom for the purposes of being a concubine after his wife’s death.
“After about five years and bearing at least one child for Robert Newsom, she had two children in total, she got tired of what she was enduring and she was, she killed Robert Newsom,” she told Missourinet.
She seeks post-conviction relief to clear Celia’s name in the Calloway County courts.
“The Callaway County courts will have jurisdiction here,” she explained. “So, it is our hope and our plan to appeal to the prosecuting attorney of Callaway County asking him to file a motion with the Callaway County courts to overturn Celia’s conviction.”
She is hoping others can learn about what she calls inhumanity.
“Let’s talk about what happened here in Missouri because when we study the past, when we study these atrocities, we’re better able to recognize the warning signs and then our children can stand in the gap, and they can prevent these things from happening again,” Westbrooks-Hodge said. “Those things we don’t understand, if we don’t recognize the warning signs, they’re doomed to repeat.”
Westbrooks-Hodge is a descendant of Celia and Robert Newsom’s daughter who was born in 1854.
Click here to listen to her interview for Show Me Today.
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JASPER COUNTY, Mo. (KCTV) – An Olathe man was seriously injured in an early Friday morning crash in Jasper County, Missouri.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said 24-year-old Jake Monaco was the driver of a 2009 Infiniti G37 that went off the left side of Interstate 44 and hit an embankment just after midnight Friday morning.
MSHP said Monaco’s vehicle overturned, ejecting him from the vehicle. He was not wearing a seatbelt according to the crash report.
The 24-year-old from Olathe crashed 6.5 miles west of Sarcoxie, Missouri. He was taken by emergency medical staff to a hospital.
The crash happened at 12:15 a.m. Friday, MSHP said.
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Missouri
Kidnapped child from Missouri, subject of Amber Alert, rescued Thursday in Wabaunsee County
ALMA, Kan. (WIBW) – A woman was taken into custody Thursday after a kidnapped child from Missouri who was the subject of an Amber Alert was rescued in Wabaunsee County, authorities said.
The rescue was reported to have occurred at 8:17 p.m. Thursday at the E. Spring Creek Road on-ramp to westbound Interstate 70 near Paxico in Wabaunsee County.
Authorities said an Amber Alert had been issued by the Missouri State Highway Patrol after a 12-year-old child was reported to have been kidnapped from Warsaw, Mo.
The child was reported to have been taken without permission by the non-custodial biological mother, officials said.
Wabaunsee County sheriff’s units, were joined by Alma City Marshal Mike Baker as they located the suspect vehicle.
The child was located unharmed. Authorities then took the child into police protective custody.
A woman identified as Anna Savard, 36, of Boise, Idaho, was taken into custody by Wabaunsee County sheriff’s deputies without further incident. Officials on Friday said Savard was being held in the Wabaunsee County Jail in Alma pending extradition warrants from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri.
Also assisting were the Kansas Highway Patrol; Missouri Highway Patrol; Kansas Juvenile Intake; Warsaw, Mo., Police Department; and the Benton County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri, officials said.
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WARSAW, Mo. (KY3) — The Missouri Highway Patrol located a 12-year-old Warsaw girl authorities believed was with her non-custodial mother.
Bridgette Annaleise Crane disappeared from the area around the 2800 block of Cedar Hills Loop in Warsaw around 4:30 p.m. Investigators believed she was with her mother, Anna Savard, 36.
Authorities announced the child was found around 8:45 p.m. Authorities have not updated the whereabouts of the non-custodial mother.
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