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White and Black Married. How a Young Farmer Wooed and Won an Old Negro's Daughter

1887-04-09

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New York Times report about the marriage of a white farmer named Cornelius Van Tilbergh (age 25) and a black woman named Lizzie Simmons (age 20) from Rocky Hill, New Jersey, near Princeton. The young couple tried to "escape the wrath of the country…