Show an aged colored fromin special ta THE NEW YOKE jau 23 quite a number of society women and men have taken tickets or otherwise subscribed toward a benefit which is to take place thi evening at st pauls colored churan on lor a colors ed woman who is said to have been a alave in thomas jeffersons family while the latter wae an occupant of the white house ber name is minnie jefferson and documents which she has preserved chow beyond ture that she Is yeara ol 01 aze she has living three 56 afrand children 8 great grand children and one ereah great grand child at any time day or evening she is to be found in a little room ia the basement of a ahouee on street cnare she is aur auri i rounded by four generations aunt minnie was born in th shenandoah valley and boucht her freedom for a hundred dollars shortly before the war her husband was a drummer in tha continental army at the tinaa of corn walliam wall iaB surrender |