MR. EDITOR—I wish to inquire
for my mother and sister. I have
not seen them since 1860. We be-
longed [belonged] to James Parker Cohen, and
in the above mentioned year I was
sold to John Burnside, of New Or-
leans [New Orleans], La; and my mother and sis-
ter [sister] were sold up in the Blue Ridge
mountains. My mother's name was…