The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-10-24
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A great deal of interest has been
felt in the incident recently related
of the restoration of a brother to
Frederick Douglass after q sepera-
ton of twenty or thirty years. A
similar instance, yet more remark
able has just happened to one Of the
respected colored citizens of this
city. Mr.. Joshua Collins yesterday
called at this office, accompanied by
a brother whom he accidentally dis
covered Saturday, after a separation
Of sixty years. Ar. Collins is a
hale looking man, 50 years old, who
was born in Fleming county, Ky
w hen he was % years old he went
with a son-in-law of his master to
Virginia as coach-driver, aud be-
tween that time, 1907 and IS49,t he
was transferred to the possession of
several masters living in Virginia,
kentucky and Tennessee. In the
year !849 he purchased his own
freedom, and in 1850 came to Ohio
where he has resided most of the
time since. s@e
At the time he went to Virginia,
his family all belonged to man liv-
ing at Mays Lick, Mason county, Ky.
His mother with two sons, one oil
der than himself, and one an infant
were not long after sold to new
master, since when he has seen neith-
er Of them, but heard that his moth
er had been sold into the extreme
South Last Saturday Mr. Collens
while passing along the street, met
a negro and casually began a con
versation with him, III tie course of
which he asked him where he was
born, and he said at Mays Lick, Ma
son county Ky. He asl1e him who
his master was, and was surprised
to find it was the man who owned
his own family when he went to Vir-
ginia. He next inquired his moth
er's name, and was told it was Est
her. This was the name. Of Mr..
Collins mother. The next inquiry
was:
'sWere not you and your mother,
and brother, sold to Jacob Kar-
man -
yes
"Was your mother, some
time afterward sold down the riv-
er?'
Yes
"What was your brothers name
who was sold with you and your
mother :"
s'His name was Aaron" a.
Had you any other brother p
Eyes, I had brother Daniel"
ssWhat became of him %
so. he's dead | SUPPOSE
s'Did you have brother Josh
ua?"
s'Yes, butI never saw him as I
know of. He went off to Virgin
ia. He was a good deal older than
I, and 1 heard he's dead long
ago"
s.Well" said Mr.. Collins, Il know
about him, and l reckon
he Isn't dead yet, NY name is Josh
ua. I was born in Fleeming county
Kentucky, and went to Virginia
when I was twenty two. My moth
er's name was Esther, and she and
two sons, one named Aaron.and one
a baby, were sold 10 Jacob Karman
about the time / went off, and guess
you're my brother
This is one ofthe most-remarhable
of the many similar instances which
has occasioned. The brother of Mr..
Collens was not freed by the war, but
escaped from kentucky to Canada,
by the underground railroad many
years ago. He lived in canada sew
eral years, and then emigrated to ia
maica, where he lived until hearing
that the slaves in this country had
all been set free, he collected all his
means, and took passage for the
land of his birth, to search for some
children whom he left behind when
he escaped from slavery. He was
passing through the city, on his way
to the ''old plantation home when
he met his brother, whom he does
not remember ever seeing before in
the way we have described. Cin.