Description
“Had Been a Slave” Mrs. Catharine Thompson, notice of whose death was made last week, spent 87 years of her life in slavery and was bought and sold five different times. She was first sold to a man named Martin of Clay County, Missouri, in 1839; she was then taken to Platte County, Missouri, where she was married in 1852 to Nicholas Martin; later they were sold to Sheppard, then separated from her husband and sold to Jacks. After Lincoln’s proclamation off emancipation she, with four small children, came to Iowa, settling in Ringgold County, working on a farm; she soon moved to Decatur County, where she was married to Andy Thompson Nov. 16, 1886, where she spent the most of her life. (Researcher's note: Numerous Jacks were Platte County enslavers.)Date(s) of Creation
2/24/1898
