One former slave, Fanny, was free after her owners moved out of the state and worked in the town so that she could buy her husband, Stephen, at auction in Missouri.
元奴隷の1人ファニーは、その所有者が州外に出て行った後で自由の身となり、町で働いたので、ミズーリ州の競売で夫のスティーブンを購うことができた。