The cold feel even colder. Current windchills. Storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal . The Weather Center with how much longer well have to deal with this bitter cold. Good morning again to you. Good morning, barbara. Well be dealing with these frigid temperatures the remainder of the day. The wind will die down but temperatures by themselves will be cold. We did set record lows today in washington as well as bwi marshall. Not a record low temperature here in february since 1970. Windchill advisory remains in effect for just about everybody. For about another hour a look at the current feelslike temperature in your neighborhood when you factor in breezy conditions. Feeling 8 below in gaithersburg. 5 below in the pa tuxant river and heading into the evening hours, 6 00 feeling like its 18 degrees. 9 00 p. M. Feeling like its about 7. Heading out tonightance bundle up but dry and then our focus, barbara, switches from the extreme cold to snow and ice. A winter storm watch for the areas
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Annie Gordon WashingtonOn May 25, 1855, Washington underwent a conversion experience at the African Baptist Church in Fredericksburg, and was baptized in the Rappahannock River on June 13, 1856, by the Reverend William F. Broaddus, of the Fredericksburg Baptist Church.
On January 3, 1862, Washington married Annie E. Gordon, a free black woman he had courted since the spring of 1853. They had six sons, one of whom died in infancy.
Civil War
On January 1, 1859, Catherine Taliaferro hired out John Washington to her neighbor William T. Hart. A year later, on January 1, 1860, Washington was sent to labor six days a week in the Alexander and Gibbs tobacco factory in Fredericksburg. On January 1, 1861, Washington went to work at a restaurant in Richmond owned by the Greek immigrant Speredone Zetelle. After about six months, Zetelle sold the establishment to a German immigrant, Casper Wendlinger. Washington described both masters as “low, mean and course” men who “treated their Ser