A NOTABLE GATHERING.
Five Generations Meet in This City--
A Family's Strange History.

Yesterday morning a reporter was directed
to visit No.246 Linden square, where a
colored family by the name of Johnson resided,
and assured that he would there find
an interesting item. Ellen Johnson, the
mistress of the house, told a very peculiar
story. She said that fifty years ago she and
her mother were slaves, owned by Mr. Ben
Johnson, of Frankfort, Ky. She was about
ten years old when her mother was sold and
taken away from her. When she was twenty-five
years of age she came to Louisville,
and has since lived here, having married in
the meantime.

She had not seen or heard of her mother
since they parted, fifty years ago, until last
February, when she received a letter from
her parent, dated New Orleans. The old
woman heard in some way that her daughter
was living in Louisville and at once made up
her mind to come and live with her. Shortly
after this she was taken sick and was not
able to travel.

Thursday night about 8 o'clock neighbors
were surprised to hear a joyous uproar coming
from No. 246. Everybody in the house
seemed to be shouting and yelling at the top
of their voices. The din sounded like a regular
camp-meeting jubilee, and was prolonged
until about 11 o'clock.

Yesterday inquiries were made, and it
was learned that the old woman, the mother
of Ellen Johnson, who had been parted from
her daughter for fifty years, had arrived.
Mother and daughter of course did not
recognize each other, but were overjoyed,
nevertheless. The mother is 112 years old
and her daughter 60. Living in the house
with Mrs. Ellen are her great grand-children.
This makes them the great great
grandchildren of Mrs. Johnson's mother.
Strange as it may seem, the reporter saw the
great great grandmother, the great grand-mother,
the grandmother, mother and children
all assembled in the same room.