Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1889 — NEGROES HEIRS TO $5,000,000. [ARTICLE]

NEGROES HEIRS TO $5,000,000.

Three Brothers and Two Sisters Paid SiI.OOO 000 Each for Pronerty. Lima (Ohio) dispatch: Henry Talbott, a colored man of this city, left to-day for Cincinnati to get possession of a fortune of nearly a million dollars, of which he has just discovered he is the rightful owner. His two brothers and two sisters each get possession of a similar amount, a property held years ago by their father, Benjamin Talbott, having in the course of time become worth millions of dollars. Fifty-three years ago Talbott was a slave in Kentucky. David Talbott, one of the family who lives at Rochester, Ind., heard accidentally some time ago of the great value of the property in Indiana which had once been his father’s, and determined to inquire into the matter. The result showed that the Talbott heirs were tne legal owners of the most valuable property in Logansport. The Wabash and Eel River roads cross the property, which is also occupied by their buildings and numerous side tracks. These companies, on being informed of the developments, compromised with the heirs for the sum of $5,000,b00.