John Jones finds his mother

REUNITED AFTER THIRTY YEARS.

A Family Separated on the Slave Auction
Block Find Each Other Again.

Supt. Byrnes recently received a letter from
a resident of Washington, D. C., asking the assistance of New York’s police in tracing the whereabouts of an aged and long-lost mother. The letter was signed John Jones. The writer explained that he was born a slave in the
South, but was now prosperous and anxious to find his mother and brother, whom he had not seen since the war. His mother, he thought,
was a “preaching missionary” in Gotham
who would answer to the name of “Parthenia Jones.”
This letter was published in the newspapers,
and it now appears that a family long separated are about to be reunited. Parthenia Jones,
the aged mother, has been traced to River-
head, L. I., where she is conducting a revival in
the African Methodist Church. The lost brother turns out to be a sleeping-car porter in
well-to-do circumstances, living at No. 345
West Forty-fourth street. John Jones, who
lived in Washington, and who has been suc-
cessful in accumulating this world’s goods,
was separated from his mother and brother by
“a sale under the hammer,” and has not seen either since. It is hard to appreciate
such a condition of affairs in these days of freedom, but the facts are incontrovertible.