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Unde Tom’* Children.Indianapolis Journal.To the thousands of persons who have read Mrs. Stowe’s immortal “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” the intelligence that two of the twenty-four children of the veritable Uncle Tom are living in this fair city, will be received almost like a whisper from the shadowy land, for it is difficult indeed to divorce the characters in a work like that from fiction and to disabuse one’s miud of the belief that they have ever had a real existence.Near the corner of Campbell and Beeler streets,in the northeastern part of the city, and not far from the shores of the classic “Pogues’ run,” alias Brookside, in a miserable shed'roof shantv,dwells UncleMoses Magruder, who is now in the one hundred and fifth year of his age, and a aster— number twenty four—the baby of Uncle Tom’s family, who is now sixty-five. The ciaims of the venerable -couple come to us almost too direct for contradiction or disbelief, and there seems little or no reason to discredit the story. In spite of their distinguished lineage the Magruders are quite poor, indeed, they would be fit objects for the attention of charitable people, for their condition might easily be bettered by a little outside assistance.
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Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 03, 1875
Page 2
Full Page
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