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Watson, Julius (birth/death dates unknown)
Trombonist; entered Jenkins Orphanage in 1928 and left to join the Carolina Cotton Pickers; worked/recorded with Buddy Johnson, then with Doc Wheeler, Benny Carter, and Cootie Williams in the 1940s.


White, Amos Mordechai (b. 1889)
Graduate of Avery – was in 9th grade with Edmund Thornton Jenkins; entered the Jenkins Orphanage in 1900 and played trumpet with Jenkins Orphanage Bands regularly until 1913; toured with bands in France in World War I; lived and played in New Orleans during the 1920s; worked with The Alabamians, toured with Mamie Smith, recorded with Tiny Parham and Frank “Big Boy” Goudie; played gigs and led marching bands through the 1960s in California.

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