Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-08
coLoRED MAN III YEARS OLD.


taxes.
COLORED MAN Ill YEARS OLD.
Mason City Globe Gazette]
The recent death of Isaac Bracken in
this city at the age of 100 years and
five months, recalls the fact that there
is living in this city at the present time
ia man who has reached the advanced
age of Ill years. This is Henry Boone,
a colored man. who is making his home
with his daughter, Mrs. L, w. Taylor.
on Water street. Mr.. Boone was born
in slavery in the state of Virginia. June
Ia, 1878. on the plantation of a rich Vir-
GINA planter named Sandals. He was
a slave for seventy-two years and was
never sold from the family of original
master. When his first master died he
went to Arkansas with Mrs. Blunt, his
masters daughter, and remained there
until he was liberated by Gen. Curtis,
| by whom he was brought to the north
and has remained here ever since. MIR
Boone is in remarkably good health and
bodily vigor and works around the
house continually. He retains his
memory splendidly and can remember
distinctly the news of the death of
i
time IL years of age. The war of 1872
4 found him a full grown man "a years
! of age and he says he can remember
distinctly the thrilling occurrences of
4 those times In the old slavery times
\ the marriages of the slaves We're arr
4 ranged entirely to suit the convenience
OF their masters and Mr.. Boone has had
4 eight wives, nearly all of whom were
A, i'm, n
\ estate. He is the father of thirty-two
children by his various wives. four of
whom are the children of his last wife
4 whom he brought 20 the north with
him and who died about twelve years
ago. Two of these children, Mrs. l.. w
4 Tyler and Mrs. F. L. Palmer, are resi-
4 last marriage Mr.. Boone was 10 years
i of age. Gen. Curtis brought the old
J slave and his wife to ST. Louis and then
. to Muscatine, Ia, and he has since
lived at Iowa City and Cedar Rapids
) He came to this city about three years
ago and has lived here ever since. He
has never used tobacco in any form
but says he was accustomed to the uss
. of stimulants as they were served to the
slaves by their masters in the days Of
W.
years to come and Will no doubt liv,
to be one of the Oldest men in ths
country.
COUNTY VS.. STATE CARE OF IN
SANE.
[Ottumwa Courier.l
Judge Kline. member of the board o
). control of state institutions. visited tn
county farm last week presumably II
search of evidence of want of care o
the incurable insane confined In GU
, county hospital. The antlpathy of tn
board to combining that class of people
!, in county asylums is we'll known ant
emanates from a desire on the part o
! the board to make a good showing il
Its report as to the cost per capita o
) the insane. When the hospitals wer
full the cost per capita was lower thai
at the present time. for the reason tina
) a few required the same amount o
Z help as a good many, and the salar.
( list could not be cut to a figure con-
mensurate with the number of patients
Hence, it is said, they desire a return
) lof the great number of incurable in
sane which have been taken from NJ,
5 Pleasant and Independence and are be
} ing cared for by the county authorize
at much less expense than formerly
, 1t is said. upon apparently good au
thority. that an effort will be made tn
coming winter to induce the legisla
ture to so amend the law that insan
people must be kept in the state inst
Itutions after having been adjudged in
sane by the commission of the count
in which they reside. Action of thi
kind would mean that Wapello county
; new hospital, fitted with all the appll
ances necessary for the care of insan
people would be utterly useless an
entail the old expense of $12 per mont
per capita, which sum this county ha
paid for years. The present cost pc
capita per quarter is only s7.64, and tn
+ care of the patient Is better than q
: Mt. Pleasant.
The residence of the steward OF tn
county farm is situated between I'll
hospital and the old county building
thus cutting off communication bt
Is tween the paupers and the insan
l. This fact explodes one of the ideas az
:. vanced by opponents of the coun,
r hospital idea in so far as 1t affects II
q argument relative to the mingling I
l. the classes. The conveniences compal
IS favorably with those in use at NJ
J, Pleasant. There is a bath tub suppl!
J, ling hot and cold water for each war
q and each inmate is given bath