Wedding After Forty Years of
Separation.
Our town is all agog this morning
over the wedding that is to be cele-
brated [celebrated] in a day or two between Aunt
Vina Johnson, an old colored lady of
our place, and a former husband,
from whom she has been separated
for forty years. Forty-three years
ago Aunt Vina was the slave of a Mr.
Johnson, in Fleming County, Ky.,
and was the wife of a Geo. Perry, also
a slave, whose master lived in Mason
County. He ran off and went to Can-
ada [Canada], but returned and got his wife
and child, and succeeded in reaching
Chillicothe with them, where they
were overtaken by Johnson, and the
wife and child taken back. She re-
mained [remained] a slave until 1864. Not hear-
ing [hearing] from her husband, and supposing
him dead, she married a man by the
name of Jerry Johnson, some four or
five years after being taken back, but
she was left a widow in a few years.
She moved to Ripley soon after being
set free. Perry, who had been living
in Canada until after the war, and
since that time has been engaged in
teaching school in Louisiana, wrote a
letter to the son of Aunt Vina's master
in Kentucky last March, inquiring
whether she was alive or dead. John-
son [Johnson] wrote to Harry Armstrong of our
place, Aunt Vina's son-in-law, and he
answered that she was living here.
Perry was at once advised, and he
commenced a correspondence. Eve-
rything [Everything] was satisfactory, and he wrote
that he would be here on Monday
night last. That Aunt Vina was all
anxiety and in a fever of excitement
no one need be told. True to his
promise, Perry arrived on Monday
evening, and the meeting was a joy-
ous [joyous] one. They have determined to
be remarried, and are making every
preparation for that event.--[Ripley
(O.) Bee.