Schley County GaArchives News.....Brothers separated by slavery, reunited August 1 1889 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 July 7, 2004, 11:16 am The Schley County News Forty-seven years ago, two negro boys were up at auction and sold. Ned Cicero, a well known colored farmer of this county, was one of the boys, his brother Tom, was the other. Different purchasers bought them and they were separated. Ned's master brought him to what is now Schley county, Tom was carried off, Ned knew not where. Freedom came and found them grown up men with families to care for, and no money to look up kin folks. Years rolled on and still they drifted apart. Last Friday, an old gray haired darkey got off the train at the depot in Ellaville, and the brothers met for the first time since they stood on the block and were bid in by separate masters nearly a half century ago. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley/newspapers/nw1236brothers.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb