George Thompson finds his first wife after 46 years
February 22, 1876
---George Thompson is a negro of Newport, 81 years of age, who escaped from slavery at Freder-ick, Md., forty-six years ago, leaving a wife and family, and who has just heard from his wife, whom he had given up for dead, having been unable to hear from her in years past. Since his flight to the North he has married, but his second wife and four children have died, and he is going back to Freder-ick to join his first. He recently received a letter from one of his daughters, who is a widow and has had fourteen children.
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