Solomon Terry never reunited with family
Minneapolis Journal (Minneapolis, MN)
February 11, 1903
EX-SLAVE ALMOST ONE HUNDRED
Never Reunited to Wife and Child Sold on
the Block.
POWERS, MICH.-Solomon Terry, an
ex-slave and well-known character, who
was almost 100 yeas old, was found near
the Cedar River Land company's camp,
No. 8. sitting near a logging road. He
was taken to the camp and died on Mon-
day from a stroke of paralysis.
He was born in Tennessee and was a
slave for about ten years. He was mar-
ried when a young man and one child re-
sulted from the union. Later he was
force to witness the sale of his wife and
child. The wife was bought by one mas-
ter and the child by another, and the
home was broken up, and Terry
never saw or heard of either since.
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