A Man and a Woman, Both Colored, Frozen to Death at Flushing

New York, 1895

Hester Johnson, colored, 95 years old, was found Sunday morning in her tumble down shanty frozen to death. She lived in a part of Flushing known as Kiljordan, and had long been an object of charity. Abraham Van Nostrand, a farmer who lives near by, occasionally stopped at her place to give her food. Sunday morning he called and receiving no response to his repeated knocks, burst open the door and found the woman dead on the floor.

William Sendon, colored, aged 90 years was found dead in the house where he lived at Fresh Meadow, near Flushing, on Friday. He lived alone. He was frozen to death.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 15, 1895, p. 1.