Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — Left $100,000 to His Ex-Slave. [ARTICLE]

Left $100,000 to His Ex-Slave.

James Wesley Dorsey, a colored man, who up to a short time ago lived In Springfield, 0., but whose whereabouts are how unknown, Is in luck to an ex tent seldom experienced by one of his race. A lawyer Is now looking him up to tell him that he has fallen heir to the sum of SIOO,OOO, left to him by Peter Sliaffer. During the early days of his life Dorsey and his mother were slaves to Mr. Shaffer, who was a Mary land planter. Mr. Shaffer recently died, rich and childless, and afcan advanced age. He showed that he had not forgotten his old servant, for, by his will, he bequeathed nearly the whole of Ids property to him.