Description
Harry Nichols:—"I spect I de oldest man in Kansas. I was a man grown when John Dorsey was running around pickin’ chips in his shirt tail; yes I remember now 'twas old Joe Warren that fotched me from Virginy to Kentucky; there we lived on de road leading to Harrisburg: he sold me to old Major Bean, and he fotched me to Missouri; then when Fantly (Phantley) Bean married I lived with him till he died: then Nick Asbury (Nicholas W.) married his wider, I lived there till the war, then I come to Kansas. I remember well when the cholera first broke out in Kentucky. I and Leroy Bean buried three ob de Old Man Bean's children, and three of Old Man Dorsey's sisters. I was thought to be an old man then. J." The above was handed us by a colored man. There is much interest taken in Uncle Harry by his people, and much figuring as to his probable age, everything going to show that he is over 100.Date(s) of Creation
2/23/1884
