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3Iudlt;* Rich by 3Xolas*H38 Cakc^.Maria Bivins, a well known colored woman residing near this town, is dead. She was 56 years old, and for more than thirty years she has Ireen engaged in making and selling molasses cakes, from which she accumulated a comfortable little fortune. Both she and her husband were born in slavery, as were several of their children. She had accumulated enough money before the war to purchase the liberty of herself and husband, and during the war she made enough money out of the Federal 6oldiers quartered here to purchase her children. After the war she bought a farm near this town, on which she employed her husband, paying him seventy-five cents a day during the spring and summer months, and fifty cents duiing the winter. Sho used two barrels of flour every month in the manufacture of cakes, always making 3,600 cakes out of each barrel. During the long jreriod she was engaged in this business, it was estimated eIic had made nearly 4,000,000 of cakes. She was an honest, industrious woman, and enjoyed the respect of all who knew her.—Onancock (Va.)Special.
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American Catholic Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, May 11, 1889
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