Johnson's first husband, Geo. Perry, escaped from Fleming County, Kentucky, to Canada 43 years earlier. Johnson and their child were went with him but were caught and taken back to Kentucky, where they remained enslaved until the Civil War. Johnson then moved to Ripley, Ohio, where her first husband found her in 1873 and they re-married.
Reprinted from the Bee (Ripley, OH)
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