The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-03-16
Seeking Her Child-FOr Thirty Years
Poor Freed Woman Has Faith i'm Pr0vf.

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Martin Schofeld, writing from
Aiken, S. c., to the Woman'S Journal,
tells this affecting story of the old
slave days:
Last week sweet voiced, humble
spirited woman came to see if would
find her daughter. She has lived in
New York and Orange since the war,
and now in her declining years has
come back here to seek the lost. Her
story is confirmed by those who had
not seen her for twenty-eight years,
and these were her words:
Il was born free, me and my two
brothers. We come Of good authors,
but our parents both died in one year.
In their days all free folks had to
have guardians, and old Mrs. r. was
ours. We lived in Charleston.
married free man and had three chill
dren. The old lady died, and her son
was their guardian for me and my
children. He was Captain R.. and he
brought my Sallie up to Aiken to
nurse for his wife, and when she was
about twenty he sold her to a trader
from Mississippi. | was in Charles
ton, at church, and man came to me
and asked:
Julia, amt you got daughter to
Aiken?'
"'Yes. have
"'Well, Captain R. has sold her to
traders
"'Oh no! not my daughter; she is
free
"'Yes, she is. that very girl, for /
fotched her from depot to Mr..
Office, in Chalmers street
II went right to spectators Office,
and asked if such one was there, and
the man said yes | ask to see her,
and he say No, you can not see her.
Then my heart cry out so it make a
noise, and the white man come down
stairs and said, For Gods sake let the
woman see her child, and he did. 1
had some good friends among the
Quakers there, and went and begged
them to help me. and they tried But
he asked such big price we could not
raise the money. and she had to go,
and [ never seen her since"
Then, in the same patient tone, she
continues:
THE Lord sent me to Aiken, to
this place. and can live on bread and
water, if can only find her; perhaps
you are to find her. Oh! think, think
what sweet thing, what blessing
would come to you, what crown, if
you find my child! Capt. r. has been
dead twenty years. | heard that when
he was dying he told his children
there was a mountain of sin on him
for what he had done to Johns chill
dren Chats us) and other peoples l
forgive him | leave them all with
the Lord, for if | think about them it
me so in heart, it makes me
sin. So / stroye to give up everything,
for the Lord says we must do it to
serve Him in spirit and in truth. The
same man had my other little girl
sold. l left her sweeping the yard
while l was away. and going back
woman called: Julia, come here
quick. / saw a man taking your Su-
san down the street. | said: oh,
my God. what trouble is this and /
went again to the speculator's Office,
and while talking my eyes flew
through the iron bars, and way back
among Others, | saw my little Susan.
[ could not get her. Sallie gone in
the spring, and in the fall Susan.
Traders came twice year. Then
they stole my only son. Fretting for
them children broke my health, and
never was well for thirty years.
When the trader came back next time,
be told some one that my Sus n had
gone crazy, had lost her mind entirely.
Then / just begged the Lord to take
aer to Himself, and when He did to
send me an answer in the spirit. One
lay, when | was sick in my bed, in
great suffering, | was meditative with
The Lord about my child, and if he had
removed her out of her sutferings.
While | was asking ber spirit come
before me, with beautiful crown on
1er head, and just like any mother,
,ry out: oh, see my Susan, bless the
Lord Then she flew away, and l
1nowed that was the way [ was to be
made sensible that he had answered
ne, and | never fretted any more for
1er, KNOWN she was dead and safe.
ou know, ma am, if We pray we must
nave faith, and | had asked Him to
answer me in the spirit, and though |
never heard word since. | know she
S dead. But | don't have them feel
ngs about Sallie; she is living, and |
EEL Twill see her before | leave this
ife. | have had such great Affections,
feel the Lord will spare me to see
Ter; and after do, face to face and
ips to lips, then He may call me any
minute and | will be ready to go"
Twenty years of hunger and thirst
sor her own flesh and blood, and now,
n her old age, she comes from New
7 York down here with the faith that
las removed mountains, hoping that
ny pen may find her child, feeling
hat IF all Christian people will join
heir prayers, she will see her again."
Friends in Orange helped pay her way
% Aiken, and now this mother, Julia
Johnson, waits in sublime meekness
and patience.
| wrote to several churches. for in
his way "the lost is found" One
carries my name in her pray
srs' for finding her daughter, sold
thirty years before.