Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . and thev were middle-aged jKople whenMrs. Stowe know them. lUit there was anothermale member of tlie family at the time, ofaiiout the same age as Moses, and his name wasPeter. He had been a slave of Judge Isaac Dunnof Lawrenceburg until the decision of Iollvscase, in ;(), which ))Ut an end to slavery inIndiana. After that be continued to live vol-untarily witii liis for-nier master until all ufl)i> old nejiro fiiends in LawreiUiluiri, bail died or left the place, and he became ver
Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . and thev were middle-aged jKople whenMrs. Stowe know them. lUit there was anothermale member of tlie family at the time, ofaiiout the same age as Moses, and his name wasPeter. He had been a slave of Judge Isaac Dunnof Lawrenceburg until the decision of Iollvscase, in ;(), which ))Ut an end to slavery inIndiana. After that be continued to live vol-untarily witii liis for-nier master until all ufl)i> old nejiro fiiends in LawreiUiluiri, bail died or left the place, and he became verylonesome. Judge Dunn then made arrange-ments for him to come to Indianapolis andlive with the Magruders, and he was livingwith them when ^Irs. Stowe knew them. Thismakes the family identical with the one in thebook, and the boys with the same names,iionisa had been married and had a daughterMartha—commonly called Topsy, but by nomeans so hopeless as ^Irs. Stowes Topsy—who is still living. Uncle Tom died on Feb-ruary 22, 1857, and Louisa on September 7,lltOO. Tom was buried in the Xoble faniilv. • (1. .•tc. in .\m. (iinnnonwealtb Series, LAST HOME OF LOUISA AND HERDAUOHTER. ( Ave. I lot at tireeiilawn, and Lmiisa in the Davidsonfamily lot at Crown Hill. Louisa was 92years of age at the time of her death, and hadlong heen cared for liy white friends, especiallyMrs. (ieorge Frank Miller, who fullilled herlast request to be buried with her folks—i. e., the Xoble-Davidsou family. For a num-ber of years after Fnclc Toms death. Mosesand Louisa lived in a log cabin on Wabashstreet, opposite the present Kmpire Iheater—•just back of the iiresent Security Trust build-ing—but after the war Mrs. Miller furnishedLouisa a home at \<\ Highland avemie. whereshe remained till her death. \i the time of Ioms <lealb, the .lotiriKilsaid: On Sunday morning, an old negro,Thomas Magruder, belter known in our boyish days as Old Uncle Tnin. lr|iuled to be a
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