Green Morgan and Prudence Croan reunited and remarried after 30-year separation

OLD, BUT STILL LOVING.
Remated After a Separation of Thirty
Years.
CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS.
Uncle Green and Aunt Prudence Go Down to the
Grave Together After All.
[Special to the EXAMINER.]
VERSAILLES (Ky.), February 5. -- A marriage
ceremony in the colored Methodist Church
here to-day developed in an ante-bellum ro-
mance [romance] of more than the usual Enoch Arden
tendencies.
The contracting parties were Uncle Green
Morgan, seventy years old, and Aunt Prudence
Croan, sixty-eight. It was the second marriage
between the two. In 1858, during slavery days,
Prudence Morgan, the slave wife of Green
Mor-
gan [Morgan] of this place, was sold to a Louisiana plan-
ter [planter], separated from her husband and taken
south.
YEARS ROLLED ON.
The war came and ended. Slavery became a
thing of the past, but Morgan never heard of
his wife. Finally he gave her up for dead and
married again. By this wife he had several
children, all now grown up, two of them mar-
ried [married] and with families of their own.
Last year the second Mrs. Morgan died.
Uncle Green began to primp and look out for a
third matrimonial partner, when one day he re-
ceived [received] a letter with a Texas postmark.
HEARD FROM AT LAST.
It proved to be from the first wife, sold thirty
years ago as a slave- She was alone and well,
and wanted to join Green. She casually men-
tioned [mentioned] that she had married a man named Brown
after the war and had emigrated to Texas and
raised a family. Brown had died a few months
ago and the children had married.
Morgan at once sent for Prudence, and she ar-
rived [arrived] here last week. It was necessary, of course,
to have another marriage ceremony performed,
and this was done yesterday.

Transcription Status

This transcription is complete

This Ad Mapped

Geolocation

Tags

Tags add missing context to the ads. Click the tag(s) below to explore ads with similar themes.

Share Information About This Ad