{"id":341,"date":"2018-02-04T17:31:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T23:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gabrielfamilyfoundation.org\/?page_id=341"},"modified":"2018-03-03T13:01:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T19:01:28","slug":"our-gabriel-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gabrielfamilyfoundation.org\/?page_id=341","title":{"rendered":"Our Gabriel Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our Gabriel Story<\/h1>\n

Of the Fairfield, Freestone County, Texas Gabriels<\/h3>\n

Jim Gabriel and Jane Shelton Gabriel were the patriarch and matriarch of the family, and both of whom were slaves in North America.\u00a0 Jim’s slaveholder was the Steve Satterwhite family who brought Jim to Texas during the early 1800s.\u00a0 Jane’s slaveholder was Frank Shelton who purchased Jane at a slave auction in Mississippi and brought her to Louisiana.\u00a0 Jim and Jane met, married, but remained with their respective slaveholder until Emancipation.\u00a0 Between marriage and Emancipation, Jim visited Jane as often as allowed.\u00a0 Afterwards, they began their lives as husband and wife in the Bethel Community near Butler, Texas, eventually settling in\/around Fairfield.\u00a0 Their offspring included eight boys and one girl: Reverend Albert Lewis Gabriel; Bedford Gabriel; Burl Gabriel; Jim Gabriel, Jr.; John Henry Gabriel; Saint Paul Gabriel; Willis Gabriel; and Mary Elizabeth Gabriel Crowder Carter.\u00a0 The Gabriel family multiplied and prospered.\u00a0 Many descendants made their mark in military service and in the ministry of the Gospel.\u00a0 Other pillars and stalwarts within the family established footholds as educators, entrepreneurs, farmers, and brick masons.\u00a0 The Gabriel family forerunners left their footprints for subsequent generations to follow, emulate, and out distant.\u00a0 Today, this group of Gabriels greet you as philanthropists and legacy stakeholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Gabriel Story Of the Fairfield, Freestone County, Texas Gabriels Jim Gabriel and Jane Shelton Gabriel were the patriarch and matriarch of the family, and both of whom were slaves in North America.\u00a0 Jim’s slaveholder was the Steve Satterwhite family who brought Jim to Texas during the early 1800s.\u00a0 Jane’s slaveholder was Frank Shelton who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-341","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabrielfamilyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabrielfamilyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabrielfamilyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabrielfamilyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabrielfamilyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gabrielfamilyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/gabrielfamilyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabrielfamilyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}