AFTER THIRTY-TWO YEARS.
JACKSONVILLE, Ill. Anderson Banks
has returned from Lincoln, Neb., where
he was just finished an eight weeks’
visit with his newly found brother In
1857, four years before the opening of
the civil war, the father and mother of
Mr. Banks, with their twelve children,
were the property of Mr. Charles Yancy,
a planter who lived near Charlottesville,
Va. In that year the owner divided a
number of his slaves among his five
children, Anderson fell to the lot of a
Mr. Taliaferro, who had married one of
the Yancys. Madison Banks, another
brother, became the property of Dr. Yan-
cy [Yancy]. Both Dr. Yancy and Mr. Taliaferro
removed to Missouri. One of the sisters
went to Macon, Ga., two brothers were
sent no one knows where and the rest
of the family remained in the old domin-
ion [dominion]. Since Taliaferro and Dr. Yancy had
gone to different parts of Missouri, An-
derson [Anderson] lost sight and knowledge of all
except those in Virginia. The war
passed, year after year rolled in, but he
heard nothing from the lost members of
the family whom the institution of
slavery had swallowed up. He came to
Jacksonville and lived here a number of
years. A few weeks ago Wm. Mallory
saw upon the street of Lincoln, Nebraska,
a man who bore a marked resemblance
to his friend in Jacksonville. He stopped
the stranger and told him of the resem-
blance [resemblance] he had noted. The man remarked
that his name was Banks and said that
Andy was probably a brother. A corre-
spondence [correspondence] ensued which brought out
the facts and open the way to the visit
which Mr. Banks has just ended. The
man was his lost brother, Madison, from
whom he has been separated thirty-two
years. Madison Banks has prospered in
his western home and Attorney W. J.
Bryan, declares him to be worth a cool
$50,000. The reunion of the brothers
was a happy one.