Civil War Marriage Vows Reaffirmed

Title: Civil War Marriage Vows Reaffirmed
Is part of: Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Calif.), 1891-1978
Publisher: Tribune Pub. Co.
Place: Oakland, CA
Date: 29-Nov-25
Extent: 1891-1978
Language: English
Temporal coverage: 28-Mar-25
Description: The text of the article is as follows: "Indianapolis Nov. 28- Marriage vows made in the dark days before the civil war granted them emancipation have been formally reaffirmed by Willis B. Black, colored, and his wife, Mary Ann Seymour. Both are 85 and have been married for sixty-five years. Black was born on a plantation in Boone County, Kentucky in 1840 and while still a babe in arms was sold to Whitfield Hayden, [Jessamine] County, Ky. He married Miss Seymour when they were twenty. After the war they were released from slavery and came to Indianapolis."; Accessed online at Newspaperarchive.com
Related resource: https://access.newspaperarchive.com/us/california/oakland/oakland-tribune/1925/11-29/page-10
Bibliographic citation: Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Calif.) 1891-1978. Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014923/>

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