Thompson and Owens were enslaved on the same plantation in Morgan County, Tennessee. They were separated during the Civil War but reunited in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1894 and married.
"John Thompson and Kitty Owens reunited and married after 25 years," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 17, 1894, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, accessed September 19, 2024, https://informationwanted.org/lastseen312/items/show/3359
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