ROMANCE OF SLAVERY DAYS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 30 May 1914, Page 12

ROMANCE OF SLAVERY DAYS.

Willis West, aged 97, was married at £ew Orleans, recently, to Marceline Brady aged 107. Both are negroes, and their romance dates back threequarters of a century. In slavery times they were the property of wealthy Louisiamans, owning adjoining plantations, but while still young were put on the auction block, one being sold into Kentucky., and the other to South Alabama Years after the war they drifted back to New Orleans. West accumulated property valued at £1000 and then met his old sweetheart. It was many years before Marceline would give her consent; indeed, it was only on the day of the wedding that she professed willingness to submit to the restraints of marriage, and the ceremony was performed twenty minutes later.