Julia Lyons reunites with sister Emeline Skipworth

Mrs. Julia Lyons, a colored lady of
Troy, Ohio, arrived in this city yesterday
to visit her sister Mrs. Emeline Skip-
worth. The bare announcement of the
fact conveys nothing strange, but when
it is added that this is the first meeting
of the sisters for forty years, when they
parted on the old plantation in Kentucky
as slaves named Hall, Emeline to come
north in search of liberty, and Julia to
remain to await a subsequent opportuni-
ty to escape and that during over three
fourths of this long parting, each have
considered the other dead, it awakens an
interest above the ordinary. To say that
theirs was a joyous meeting would be
superfluous. Mrs. Lyon is well to do
living on a farm in the Buckeye State
with her children, while most of our citi-
zens are acquainted with Mrs. Skipworth,
and her family, as among the best of our
colored population. An account of the
latter family's arrival in this city and
the circumstances surrounding it has
been written up in the reminiscences of
Erastus Hussey and printed in the Call.
They are enjoying a pleasant reunion,
these dark days.