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"Ex-Slave Who Knew General Andrew Jackson Is Dead" - - Alfred Toliver, an ex-slave, died at his home west of Tonganoxie last Thursday of senility at the age of 115 years. (born ~1795). He was born in Kentucky and was held a slave in Daviess and Platte Counties. Toliver claimed that he worked in the harvest fields during the War of 1812 and remembered General Andrew Jackson well.
Alex Toliver, a son of Alfred Toliver by his 3rd wife, says that his father was married 5 times and there were born to them, to his knowledge, 26 children at least.
In the last years of his life the old man was blind and unable to work. He was buried last Saturday in Summit Cemetery.Date(s) of Creation
2/11/1910
