The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-12-10
AUNT sOPnr,S sIAvE nUsnlND
a Meeting aiier Invent, Ncnrs' separation
What AuntI Remembered.


An Interesting drama was enacted at
noon the other Jay N the baggage room IN
the Union depot Old Aunt SOghti. the stout.
goOd-natured Coicred woman who sweeps out
the Union depot anu walt, IA On TIC rem
passengers IN thn waiting room. was standing
up with Ter hands behind her against D. Al IN
the baggage room. Two cOloied men entered.
One vs. well. known cXurc-s wagon driver:
the other wa a wCll-dre--Cd Culurcd man tbnut
forty or fotiN-hye years 81 aye. Police Ouicor
llanlon followed them intO the room and point
ed out Aunt SOphy.
Aunt sOphy, does We know dis yere mani"
inquired the eXpress-WagOn driver.
Inc wel-dressed strang peered curiously
beneath the old sun-honnct aud waited anx-
iously for the expected RECOGNITION. But tue
old c0lpred woman after nasty glance at the
face OF the stranger responded shortly and
80. sar I don't know the eemman."
"What Sophy. don't yc know George Duncan
what Was married 10 We dow. uar Ia Cole county
stranger. advancing tow ard the Old woman, who
stood dedanily backed ~ against post.
yes" responded the old aunty cruny 81
members dat ar George Duncan
An don't We member how was sold Souf
when got cotched DIT time
Yes. remembers MI bout dat ar; members
how dat same George Duncan run of Wild
wuthless white won IN an ION me aud my baby.
and dat he got cOtchcd aiore lac got to de free
state out yeah in Kansas. aud his master sold
him so9f. On, yes, members sll bout IT.
"l's dat ar man; Is George Duncan, come all
de way from Orleans to mud you, sOphy and my
boy. Whar am dat ar tuyV
"Dat boy am a man bigger dan you; he am a
Hes at wuk In de elumyator."
lis We married agan, sophy2" quered the
mo. / isI't," said the old woman. impatient
ly, almost angrily, "an' doesn't tend to be
again"
After brief pause the man asked ia sort Of
broken voice:
"whar am dat boy ob mine?"
lies down IN de elumvdtOr at de state line"
Don't We know me. Sophy, no morn Don't
ye member when | come coortin' Se down at
MassA Shelby Mar,ln's place down dar III Cole
A. r
ried. an an. on! Sophy, don't Sc know yer
husband. George Duncant'
wuman's eyes. but she held them ba mo-
ment, when nature gave way and sac gave her
cid slave husband her hand and Oade hun " 20
see dat ar tuy."
After the old slave had left the baGgaee-room,
a Iun's reporter took old Aunt sophia va hand.
anu from hcr learned the following Interesting
facts IN the case:
AD1ut twenty years ago she was a slave be-
longing t. Col. Sne4uy Martin. a wealthy farmer
81 Cole county, not far from jefferson CITY Not
Ter from her olu hoiue there resided n
family by the name OF Duuean, who owned
courtsnip George ana sophia were married.
But George. III his visits TO jefferson CIV, got
acquainted win worthless. tgr ued woman.
ana with her started OF Oh the " underground
railrpnd' f1r Kansas. sophia nNed with her
master until the VIZ set ntr ttee. Her husband
MS rec INJURED, Thought hacA o. chri-un, ,.ud
soil 10y ms master una Was stni e. tIc cotton
George Duncan saws he has always regretted
bitterly MS rtutWaN scrd.u win che worthless
Wilte woman, hhl When nc was BETRAYED bN her
wncn near the Kansas line, and WAS taken back
ana sold south ne gave ~ an hone OF ever
seeing his wife and chtid again. He was taken
10 the cotton nelds Of Mississippi, and finally
transf erred To Louisiana. where be has iiyed for
the past eleven wears. lie SAYS lac las been saw
ing iHnH"N ali the time wi view of con ing
North To- seek hir fan iV and this wear he savs
he raised several bales ol cotton, the proceeds
OF Watch have enabled HIN To prosecute ms
search for his long lost wife and enid. lie
went urst To Jefferson cay, tut found that his
wife disappeared from there during he war.
lie searched every town along tie Missouri
river from Kansas ti,y to Jefferson city, and
felt confident he would ind nj family some
where. lie gOt track OF hi- wife accidentally in
conversation with a cOlored eNures, driver, vino
took him TO the depot ana brought the long
-eparated pair together. II Is not definitely set
tied IN the mind Of the long deserted wife
whether she will take back her tfunnt husband
~ i'm. She expressed her mind las, night in
these words:
Don't know yet wedder hes my husban or
not. is got nice home, a house an Int an
furniture. which | worked hard lor. i, Ten
wOrkin' IN dis Sere depot nigh on five years, an
| KIN git along without George Dunchn. Is
nehner got oher that runnln away via dat at
Whttc woman
Then old auntv waddlcd ont Of the depot
ticket Office sAa~ing hcr mead and Prumihu..
terrinN over the p ospvct Of haV.p- t. take W
Will hex lOHg-lost husband.