Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-23
Moses and Aaron.

Manumission Papers-ssThought 1t Was !
 Aaron's Ghost''--A Centenarian Mother
 "A Journey to AIexandrfa--A Pair of \
 Twins.
 About 1O6 years ago, according to the best belief of the relatives, an aged female patrl- arch now living in Alexandria, Va, was born. There seems to be a strong probability that the aged woman is we'll over hundred. She for fifteen years just prior to the war of the rebellion for MT. Henry R. Barnes, of Fair Haven, employed hy him chiefly in the mar ket corner of Grand and East Pearl streets that Mir. Barnes conducted. Moses now i lives in the old Academy building on Clinton ! avenue, Fair Haven, and is sexton of the I Grand street Baptist church. Moses believed \ his mother to be dead. He had not heard 1 from her in ten or twelve years, but he had ! dreamed dreams'' that she was yet alive. ! However, he had begun to regard her as \ among the shades of the departed and no ! longer 8 dweller on the earth. Moses had twin brother named Aaron, but Aaron sluna-
 bered with his fathers, having been killed few years ago by a fall from building ill Alexandria. Recently Moses heard in some ! Alexandria and living with his sister, and flial and fraternal emotion was stirred in his 1 bosom and he sighed to revisit the old ! lady and his sister once more. 1 The great barrier to the consummation | of this pious and laudable desire of his heart was funds. Knowing his desire the daughter of MT. Barnes raised the sum necessary for the object and presented it to MT. Jones. He at once made the necessary ! preparations and started without delay on 1 the great journey, his heart swelling up with l emotion at the thought of beholding his dear ! old mother and his sister, and the scenes of his childhood, and the old oaken bucket once more. He returned recently overflow ing with pleasure and satisfaction at his ex- perience, and apparently ten years younger. He had beheld once more his venerable mother and his sister, the latter of whom is hale and hearty, but well advanced toward old age. On entering the home, as his sis. ter's eyes fell upon him they grew larger and larger, till, as Moses said, they grew as large
 as saucers, and she finally threw up hel
 hands and exclaimed to her mother, in ac
 cents fraught with amazement and awe, that Aaron's ghost had come. Consternation pre-
 vailed in the little donaicile of colored people
 for short time. The twins were as like as
 two peas, and it was an experienced observer
 who could tell them apart By dint of ex
 planation and assurance Moses satisfied hi:
 relatives that it was not Aaron, but their req flesh and blood brother all the way iron
 Dragontown, the land of oysters in Connect
 cut, who had come to them. The joy of tht
 meeting was great, and need not be ex
 plained further. Moses brought homo
 with him, beside store of pleas
 ant family "reminiscences and delight
 full recollections of his venerable I mother and sister, several manumission pa pers. It seems that when slaves. Moses Aaron, the mother and sister, were owned b, an Alexandrian slave holder named Jones
 who not only gave all four the name O
 Jones, but years before the war gave then ! their freedom, and the evidences of this gen erosity Moses brought with him to his kint ! friend and benefactor, Mir. Barnes. Nose
 has many joyful moments in sweet contem
 plation of his great Journey to Alexandria
 and as he limps along to and from his dail.
 duties, his heart is cheered by the fact tha
 there are no slaves now anywhere in Amer
 ica, and that now and in his coming old ag
 he has home in so pleasant place as Fai
 Haven. We are unable to state whether hi
 mother ever cooked for George Washington , but Moses says he and Aaron were bor1 l when his mother was GO years old.