MR. EDITOR-I want to inquire through your valuable columns for my people. My grandfather's name is Billy Shurn, my grandmother Milley Sheppards, formerly belonged to a man by the name of Wm. Shurn, Grandfather's former master. Sheppards was the name of grandmother's master. Their children were Lucinda Sheppards, Sicily Sheppards, Henry Coulter,…
Of my two sonss, Sidney and Harrison
who belonged to Clem. Cannon, who
formerly lived in Shelbyville, Bedford
county Tenn., and were sold to Goodbar.
a trader, and when last heard from were
in Montgomery, Ala. The oldest one is
about 26 years of age. My name is Sidney.
When they left I belonged to a man by the
name of Elliott.…