The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-08-28
A Story OF MISTRESS AND MAID.
A slavsholder's Daughter BECOMES seaun-
stress for Her Former Servant.
From tAs ian Frunci,oo Erdn

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There are two women in San Francisco who
can tell q story Of ups and downs that would
estonish . noyelist. One Of them Iives out on
woman with a pretty way OF numbering her
RS that betrays her Southern origin. She Is a
widow. and she lives with her mother in 9
psnSr and want. IsHs goes out to sew by the
day. and she manages to make Just enough
mother. and to. purchase q few poor comforts
to warm the chill Of age. Yet that woman was
Snss sss T ths sn- hi a dsI'e h n hHRs Of the the
old South. and She never knew what care or
anxiety meant,
was a rich Kentucky family named .Montgom-
cry. They lived on q beautiful plantatlonn near
black baby. whose parents were dead, Mrs.
Montgomery had q little daughter Just the age
dren grew Old enough the little black girl be-
came the maid of the little white girl. Life was
y%isifd gay 10 IN TN faos sss oLd iaYs nl ,nsfs Ssre ap l"i' li {.
tie Miss MONTGOMERY bad nothing to do but
grow and he happy. When she was - Years
belonged TO a family in, the neighborhood;
He had only one name then. he Was called
Bristol; IL He .,t n,ea t." &c come n @s eyer r to es tns 6,s M wiie.
Things went on smoothly for the young me-
groes for a while. Their owners were friends,
and so they saw eacn other quite often. At the
end OF six, years, tho. woman had borne her
husband three children.
,u Thsn en fiks II ii" t Gari rest ne 81 N ths S5ntE' 'aTmhi ey
lost all their property. they W re compelled to
give un their hotnei and finally all The slaves
three children went to, St, Joe. and the
woman went out to work by the day. She did
in the heb Beginning Of the great, struggle he
had teen sold to II Col. Wilson. who went away
with him she knew not where, So che strug-
living for her children. Finally She drifted
westward. She live! for several years ~ salt
Knew that he called himself wilson. bristol
Wilson, after his new master, and she knew
that Col. Wilson came to the coast.
One day she heard, that he was in San Fran
cisco. She wrote t. him. He was delighted to
sent for her: WIN she arrived She found
that her husband had prospersh in California.
At the close Of the war his master set him free.
and he managed to accumulate quite a little
some time in ~1sS3-that the little slave girl
free and prosI erous. They bought a pretty
little home out on Guerrero street, and there
they hsG h Live so,da y IT., bhey M" "5isn wS8se nna y Mrs:
About two years ago Mrs. Wilson wanted
man to come and sew by the day.
Her old owner answered.the ndyertise nrent;
She MAS no longer the pretty lignt.heafn1e tel
lame was Mrs. Sweeney: She was wan and
pale from overwori and anxiety. and tho two
=, Mrs. Sweeney was surprised to find that the
advertiser was Il colored woman. but she
worked steadily away and said nothing. One
day Mrs. Wilson was In a chatty mood. and tho
two women talked override days before the war.
Then the truth came out. The Moytgom"rys
had been ruined bv the war. and they had
come West to try and rerrilt heir ssiatter" !
fortunes. They failed miserably. Mother and
daughter clung together and fought Gate with
failing courage.
Now the daughter Is sewing by the day for
the woman she once owned. and she is paid
for the work by the man who was once the
bond slave VI her friends.