Tom Carnahan reuniting with his brother, Silas, for the first time since the Civil War. They were enslaved in Arkansas before being separated by the war.
The Lincoln, NE Star Journal, 27 Oct 1886, 2, newspapers.com:
"Tom Carnahan, of the Lincoln Police force, met his brother Silas, Monday evening after a seperation [sic] of thirty years. At the time of seperation [sic] both were slaves on an Arkansas river plantation."
1900 U.S. federal census, Lincoln, NE: enumerates Thomas Carnahan as a black police officer, born in Arkansas, in July 1846. Parents both born in Kentucky.
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