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Early Marriages.In the list'of old marriage 'license Diibiished Sunday is that ot John Crabb and Sara Ann Harvey, married December 9. 1811. B. P. Jones/of this city was then a resident of Jonesville, and was preseat at the wedding. Mr. Crabb was a widower and Mrs. Harvey was a widow.Another notable character in this list, was Harvey Pease, married to Charlotte McPhenny, December 6,184-1. Harvey Pease was a well known and prosperous cit'zeu of Pea Ridge, Jennings county, a very peculiar man. He was a local preacher, and an original abolitionist. During the days of slavery he harbored many a poor colored man who was making his escape from the south. He was . an intimate friend of the celebrated Jesse Coffin, of “underground railroad” fame, who figured conspiciously in the celebrated story, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and also of Chaikly Chawner, another conspicious character who in those days resided near Azalia, and it was through the frequent conference of these men that the foundation was laid that afterward took shape in the form of Abraham Lincoln’s famous proclamation that gave the colored race its freedom. Mr.' Pease was a tall, gaunt form, a drollcharacter, Jout an honest and con-scientous man, and always wore clothes of his peculiar, characteristic ideas. He is well known to many of our readers, having only died a few years ago, at the age of 70 years. Mr. Pease was married six times in all, but whether the one referred to here was the first, we are unable to tell, but are inclined to think it was.
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Columbus Daily Times
Columbus, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 16, 1897
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