Browse Items · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery

Elsie Watson looking for her son Edward D. C. Bryant

Searching for her son

Tags: changed name, child(ren), migration (west)

Isaac S. Grant is searching for his uncle Jacob J. Simmons

Grant lived in the County Hospital, Farmhurst, DE. Placed two ads on the same page (one ad for Mittie and Bakes, the other for Grimes).

Tags: Civil War, pension (Civil War), U. S. Colored Troops, veteran

Lucy Ponsley, Media, PA, searching for her people or for Captain John Ritter. Her father, James Somers, fought in Civil War under Ritter. Killed.

Tags: orphan, orphanage, sibling(s), U. S. Army

Louisa Mitchell, Thurlow, Delaware County, PA, searching for her sisters, Harriet Jackson Davis and Julia Ann Jackson

France Jones seeking information of Marietta Sliny, who is either her daughter or sister.

Margret Taylor searching for her mother, Malinda Easton, who was enslaved by Hiram Easton.

Tags: Civil War, family history, migration (north), parent(s)

Issac Cannon searching for his mother Sarah Jacobs.

Tags: sold

Julia Smith and Ruth Little seeking information of Geo. G. Gordey, who was the son of Julia and brother of Ruth.

Rachel Hackett searching for Sarah Jane Hackett, Ellen Hackett, and their half-sister Mary Elizabeth Hackett.

Tags: child(ren), ministers please read, resistance, runaway, self-emancipation, slave trade, sold south

Henry Gooden seeking information of Margaret Ann Gooden.

Robert Jackson searching for his siblings Kitty, George and Alfred Jackson.

Tags: sibling(s)

Somerset Cannon searching for his/her siblings Margery, Mahala, and Stephen Cannon.

Tags: estate division, inheritance, master died, migration (north), Reconstruction, resistance, runaway, self-emancipation, sold south

Tilman Handy searching for his son James Charles Handy.

Tags: child(ren), slave trade

Jane N. Watson searching for her son James Watson.

Tags: child(ren), Civil War, maritime work, migration (north), physical description, sailor

Jacob Galloway giving his new city of residence so that his children, Moses, William, Elizabeth, and Issac may find him if they are still living.

Tags: migration (north), Reconstruction