Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — 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, ().. but whose whereabouts are now unknown, Is In luck to an ex tent seldom experienced by one of hi.race. A lawyer Is now looking him ui to tell him that he has fallen heir t the sum of 1100,000, left to him ! Peter ShafTer. During the early da; of his life Dorsey and his mother doves to Mr. Shaffer, who was a M,» land planter. Mr. Shaffer recemly ,1 rich and childless,mud at an advin . age. He showed that he had 'not «■ rotten his old servant, for. by bis v: r„ bequeathed nearly the whole es ' property to him.