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FOUND HIS MOTHER

John Williams Visits His Mother After an Absence of 32 Years.

The Knoxville Tribune of yesterday contains a long account (which was printed as original in the Gazette this morning) of the reunion of a mother and son, who had not seen each other for thirty-two years. The people were colored, the mother's name being Harriet Blackwell, and that of the son John Williams, he having taken the name of his master, a Mississippi planter, to whom he was sold when a boy. Williams learned of his mother's whereabouts from a colored man who was in Knoxville a few days ago, and, the Tribune says, came to Asheville, where his mother lives, on Christmas day. The Tribune says in closing the story:

"John went alone into the house, and his mother, upon seeing him, rushed into his arms with many exclamations of joy. He remained in Asheville until Tuesday. A brother of John who was sold at the same time he was has never been heard from since he left the Blackwell plantation."

Williams also met in Knoxville a brother whom he had not seen since he left home, and from him learned that their mother was living.