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FOUND AT LAST. A former Slave, Now in Ohio, Hears From His Long-Lost Mother. SPRINGFIELD, O., March 11, - After 40 years' separation William H. Todd, and ex-slave at Washington Court House, Fayette county, has discovered the whereabouts of his mother, now 100 years old, living at Macon, GA., through a letter received last night. Twelve years prior to the war they were sold to different masters and each received the master's name who made the purchase. Todd and one of his brothers belonged during the war to the Twenty-second Colored Union Infantry and at the battle of Deep Bottom, VA., his brother lost his life. There were 14 brothers and all of them were soldiers in the Union army; 12 of them fought in the Fort Pillow massacre, eight being killed after the fort had surrendered and rebels had taken possession of it. Four escaped and are living to-day near the scene of their childhood, where their aged mother and four of "Gov- ernor" Todd's children by his first wife are liv- ing. The letter gives Todd intense delight. He is about 70 years of age and quite poor. An effort is on foot to raise money enough to send him to his native State, where he may see his mother before she dies. He has bee writing to people in the South for many years concerning the whereabouts of his mother and children, and at last he is a happy man. He was assisted in the search for her by the son of his old master, Mr. Todd.