The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-07-20
DECISIONS DAUGHTER
or ,cK SHE is, BUT e GOT ALL HIS
MONEY.
rho Richest Negress in GeOrgia--Her Mar
riaoe Yesterday i'll Augusta, to Nathan
Toomer, of Perry--A Full
sized Bishop Offici-
ates.

SIZeu Dlshop OhICA-
ates.
AUGUSTA. GA, July 14-Eubanks, Che
+ba illeoieimate colored offspring of the
late David Dickson, of Hancock county,
was today married to Nathan Toomer, a
nrominent negro of Perry, The ceremo-
nv was performed by Bishop Haisey, of
fine African Methodist church.
The story of how Amanda came to be
fine richest negress in the world is one
full Of interest.
HOW SHE GOT HER MONEY.
David Dickson was the farmer prince
Of Georgia, with immense real estate
holdings in Hancock county. He willed
half a million to the daugl ter of his ne
gro companion. An effort was being
made to break the will, which was un-
successful in the court below. Before
the supreme court the will was affirmed.
The case excited unbounded interest.
Hancock county, in which Dickson
lived, has always been one of the most
aristoclatic in the State. 1t was before
the war, peopled by large slave overs,
who derived great revenues from South
west Georgia, Mississippi and Texas
Young Dickson early developed a re-
markable aptitude for business and
made money from the beginning. He
bought lands about twelve miles from
Sparta, to which he added from time to
time, until he had in one block 80, 600
acres. Besides this large body of land
he made profitable investments il. Texas
real estate. He soon began to count his
slaves by companies and regiments.
When the war broke out he had on his
Hancock plantation 800 able bodied male
slaves. The close of the war left the
slaves free, but to man of Dickson's
ingenuity that mattered little. He re-
tanned them as tenants, and having once
gotten them in his power he never relaxed
his grasp. His remarkable success under
the new order of things made him a man
of note. When the planters elsewhere
had given up the task of managing free
labor in despair, Dickson was thriving
and growing fat. His bank deposit ran
up to 10000. He held large blocks of
railroad stock and was one of the direc-
tors OF the Georgia road. His acres
broadened out into palatinate. At the
annual meeting of the state agricultural
society he was always given an honored
place Away from home no man was
more honored in Georgia than David
Dickson.
THE FATAL MORNING.
On the morning of February 10, 1885,
Dickson called for his horse and mount
Ing the animal, rode briskly over his i'm
menSe plantation, He grew dizzy, and
turning his horses .headitowardsjhis home
reached that spot in great pain. He fell
OIL his horse into the hands of his atten-
uantS, and was dead by the time they
had lald upon his bed. The news of his
oeath was received throughout the late
WIN genuine regret. P ople from a
Instance made their way to his home to
attend the funeral. They found the
noUSehold IN charge of negroes. They
iound aSo that the white neighbors
n'PV at a distance. The arrangements
'oF The funeral were most unique. By a
D0'ce written out on a piece of brown
Paper 1t was directed that upon his
S'"'n he should be laid out in state.
u'eSssq IN his black suit; that golden
'Oo'iplck should be placed in one hand
"l0 penknife should be clinched in the
V'Her' and white silk handkerchief
r rm'uo be opened out across his breast
; iI"s declIed out his body was to be bur-
, o IN sunny Ecorner of the garden.
- piiSlhg as these developments were
Vie strangers, greater was yet in
s'OIe Tor them when the will was
read. "i' was
M,
b;., "lS singular document disposed Of
Mr. PIoPerty IN the following manner;
Ran. ~ NJ Dickson 81 900, Miss Annie
ss 9ea $1,000, David Worthen's sister
Mr. ,Y'o' JEFF Worthens brothers s.. 900.
Pan, D D, Rogers $500, Miss Bertha
500 ooo Gooo' JeffoWorthen 5000 acres)
and w. w. EDWARD Eubanks, 81 1000, Julian
S1o oo S,l%Fles Eubanks, colored, 0andl
eyo ,Yoo'V' W, DuBose and Jeff Wortben
AmanJ lIi9 ,, IN iieu of commissions, S., 200:
this So 49, A0oanks, colored, the bride Of
ton, ' s1ay 100000. Total dow valua-
gular mo rqueSts uncovered story of sim
"i moral obtusanoaa nv,