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A Memory of Slavery Days. CAPE MAY, Dec. 5. - Colonel H. W. Sawyer has in his employ as a cook a colored woman, Mrs. Marcia | A Memory of Slavery Days. CAPE MAY, Dec. 5. - Colonel H. W. Sawyer has in his employ as a cook a colored woman, Mrs. Marcia Calmikle, who was born of slave parents and was separated from her mother by the latter's (illegible) sold when she was but 1 month old. She is now 31 years of age and has just heard of the whereabouts of her mother and family for the first time. She has been making strenuous efforts to discover them for several years, and received today a letter in reply to an advertisement inserted by her in a Richmond, Va., paper, informing her that they were alive and well and living in Richamond. Mrs. Calmikle is very happy at the discovery and will soon visit them. | ||
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A Memory of Slavery Days. CAPE MAY, Dec. 5. - Colonel H. W. Sawyer has in his employ as a cook a colored woman, Mrs. Marcia Calmikle, who was born of slave parents and was separated from her mother by the latter's (illegible) sold when she was but 1 month old. She is now 31 years of age and has just heard of the whereabouts of her mother and family for the first time. She has been making strenuous efforts to discover them for several years, and received today a letter in reply to an advertisement inserted by her in a Richmond, Va., paper, informing her that they were alive and well and living in Richamond. Mrs. Calmikle is very happy at the discovery and will soon visit them.