Show bis families chigo ind april 22 on alie banks of abo blue lick in dark county indiana the log cabin homo 0 uncle alfred lanna who is probably I 1 be most numerous father in abo union A reporter hunted him dp and found him sitting before a blaming log fire lie is a degro and in answer to inquiry said ase ninety aoah henrs ole lag day boss ibe been married crali times an had thirty six chillen chil lun avana does not I 1 iok quite BO old no w lute kinks are yet in his wool and he is aa happy as any black man lie nas bora in county north carolina thirty eight miles from the nearest postoffice post office which was called washington city lie was born a slave and was owned by A C apt blunt he married three wives under the lav dispensation all of them but prea entine him wibb a total of beven children fourteen imsand thirteen girls cheso were all living when alie war broke out his master organized military company and took evans with him a body servant while in tennessee uncle alt heard of proc lania tiou and escaped to fayette count kentucky in company A colored troops after brief service the regiment waa mustered out at louisville iu 1805 and avans came to lie made beveral carolina or bear from bis family and finally married again moving to ilia home twenty coara ago ilia last wife bore him dihe children fv ans bad a brother on atie old plantation ft bo younger was probably aa prolific for up to the time uncle alt left liia brother biad twenty five ib ildren april 22 among the largest families and the idoft re ono iu this of alio state is bat of mr and ahra john K jerown ho are the parents of nineteen children among them ano pair of twins john boasts 0 fifteen cli ildren william littier thirteen samuel eleven and job n 22 a farmer of county mayo ireland married hea 27 years old bis baide bei neten onnfer on nger of this marriage ona children nere born all buys in little more than itie abma number of ears ahe children all lived and nero remarkably strong and healthy As abo eldest grew toward estate lie worked ins nay to the united states v hence he soon sent for bis next brother money v us bent by them from time to time to the old folks and gradually the passage of brother after brother waa paid until the entire twenty one were on this aide of abo atlantic v here they worked at various trades in the penn sylvania vania coal fields none of the older boys married aud it was for several years tho invariable of the ono to pay a visit to their parents in mayo they eacle gave their father a present of a gum of money and with aliis sum he was jn a few veara enabled to purchase one of the befit arms in ins county the most part 0 tle etory is that when the father was about SO years old and the mother 70 ebe gave birth to a daughter alio first and only one and both parents lived to see alna child almost reach the age of womanhood WAd Asir april SST ri a wealthy farmer enjoyed be dia tiou of raising the family in section of air roel eara ago laming twenty two rons and three l rb all of are now living lit rele berated the of each i lnla by riving lilun a tor eighty land of 2000 acrea in manner the 0 air cLer aio all the heads ol 01 large tami lioa william I 1 ib tho biro of sixteen all living in this vicinity the stout ers are amona alio moat and energetic citizens of abe country jainel of his ity liaa hafid fifteen children fourteen aro licini liy ini one of the families in thia vicinity 1 that on authony ahe union of mr and mra has been blessed by the of fourteen children seven 0 whom are living alie astounding toun ding la lonnee tion nith the are that tarco times in mrs ik her husband nith bains and tarsa six adili tiona to the in than oliree years child is 23 and be youngest nine the bonus hag been raised but ho iron 01 bs are not as yet no answer hag ben received from the proprietor at pueblo and until it ar ayea nothing definite bo known |