Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1902 — Kept Silent Forty Years. [ARTICLE]

Kept Silent Forty Years.

“Near the town of Shelbyville, in my state,” said R. L. Turner of Kentucky, “lives an old colored woman who has never spoken since her husband was put upon the block and sold to a slave dealer, over forty years ago. The vow old Aunt Susan made at the time that she would never utter a word until her husband was returned to her she has religiously kept. She is now almost 70 years old and in good health, and there is not a particle of doubt that sSm will keep her vow of silence for the remainder of her days.”