Leroy Humbler searching for his son Lee Andrew Humbler
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Leroy Humbler searching for his son Lee Andrew Humbler. Lee Andrew was taken by the Confederate Army during a raid of Southern Kentucky along with his brother Sam Henry. Sam and Lee Andrew were separated in Knoxville, Tennessee. Sam returned home, but it is thought that Lee Andrew was taken toward Savannah, Georgia.
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August 8, 1865
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Wm. Garnet searching for his wife Jane and children Willis, Abraham, and Jeney
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Wm. Garnet searching for his wife, Jane, and his children, Willis, Abraham, and Jeney, formerly enslaved by Daniel Garnett, of Manchester, KY. He has been separated from his wife and children for 14 years [since ca. 1851].
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July 19, 1865
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Gibson McMurtry searching for Len Perrian
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Perrian, a brick mason, is the father of Lydia Cook. Lydia is enslaved by James McCurtry, of Bryantsville, Kentucky. Len formerly lived in Shelbyville, Kentucky.
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February 20, 1865
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Joshua Oglesby searching for his son James Oglesby
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Joshua Oglesby searching for his son James Oglesby. James is a free person of color. He left his father's house in Louisville, Kentucky in 1862 during the Civil War. He is supposed to have followed one of the divisions of the U.S. army.
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October 7, 1862
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Ellen Johnson reunited with her mother after 50 years
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Johnson, age 60, reunited with her mother, reported to be 112 years old. Johnson lived in Louisville, KY. Her mother had been sold, by Ben Johnson of Frankfort, KY, and sent to New Orleans 50 years earlier [ca 1835].
Shorter versions of this article appeared in numerous newspapers nationwide. See newspapers.com.
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September 12, 1885
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Green Morgan and Prudence Croan reunited and remarried after 30-year separation
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Green Morgan and Prudence Croan remarried in Versailles, Kentucky in 1889. They had been separated there in 1858, when Prudence was sold and taken to a Louisiana plantation by her former enslaver. Both Green and Prudence had remarried after their separation, but were widowed.
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February 6, 1889
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Vina Johnson reunited with her husband George Perry after 43 years
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Johnson's first husband, Geo. Perry, escaped from Fleming County, Kentucky, to Canada 43 years earlier. Johnson and their child were went with him but were caught and taken back to Kentucky, where they remained enslaved until the Civil War. Johnson then moved to Ripley, Ohio, where her first husband found her in 1873 and they re-married.
Reprinted from the Bee (Ripley, OH)
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August 14, 1873
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Woman reunited with her first husband after more than 50-year separation
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She was enslaved on a plantation near Asheville, North Carolina. Her husband was sold away from her more than 50 years earlier [ca. 1840]. In 1890 she found him living in Newport, Kentucky. (Their names are not given in the article. Additional research needed).
Originally published in the Louisville, KY Post, versions of this article appeared in newspapers nationwide and in London. See newspapers.com.
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January 8, 1891
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Mary Stowers found her son Willis Green after 28-year separation
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Stowers was separated from her son 28 years earlier [ca 1846], when she was sold from Owensboro, KY, to Shelby County, KY, and then again from Shelby County to Alabama.
Reprinted from the Evansville Journal
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May 6, 1874
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V. J. Lancaster searching for his brother Frank Lancaster
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V. J. Lancaster searching for his brother, Frank Lancaster, who formerly lived in Louisville, Kentucky.
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November 26, 1904
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Hyson Duncan searching for his mother, brothers, and sisters
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They were enslaved by James Duncan, near Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, and were separated 46 years ago.
Several people enslaved by this Duncan family, of Logan County, Kentucky, sued the Duncans for freedom in the St. Louis, Missouri Circuit Court. See scholarship by Anne Twitty, Kelly Kennington, Lea VanderVelde, Robert J. Moore, Jesse Nasta, etc., on the antebellum St. Louis freedom suits.
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March 1892
Jesse Nasta
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David Phelps searching for his parents, Moses Phelps and Susan Phelps
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His parents were in Beatville, Mississippi [Batesville?], when last heard from.
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January 22, 1890
Jesse Nasta
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Nat Miller reunited with his sister
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Nat Miller of Lawrence, Kansas, lost his sister "during slavery times." He found her in 1904.
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March 28, 1904
Jesse Nasta
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Sisters, Julia Lyon and Emeline Skipwarth, reunited after 40 years
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Emeline Skipwarth escaped from slavery in Kentucky to Michigan. Forty years later, in 1885, she found her sister, Julia Lyon, near Troy, Ohio.
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November 20, 1885
Jesse Nasta
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John Thompson and Kitty Owens reunited and married after 25 years
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Thompson and Owens were enslaved on the same plantation in Morgan County, Tennessee. They were separated during the Civil War but reunited in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1894 and married.
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January 17, 1894
Jesse Nasta
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Ed. Claybrook searching for Samuel Pearl
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Claybrook and Pearl were both of Owensboro, Kentucky.
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August 1, 1866
Jesse Nasta
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Mrs. Charlotte Powell looking for her father Sam Mosely, mother Elizabeth, three brothers Harvey, Amos, and Isaac, and two sisters Rebecca and Lucretia
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Mrs. Charlotte Powell looking for her father Sam Mosely, mother Elizabeth, three brothers Harvey, Amos, and Isaac, and two sisters Rebecca and Lucretia. Charlotte and her father Sam were formerly enslaved by Joe Powell of Kentucky. Charlotte now lives in Sacramento, California.
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June 3, 1870
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Millie Scott searching for her son George Coates
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Millie Scott seeking information about her son George Coates who "belonged to" Charles Handsome Coates, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Last seen in Clarksville, Tennessee.
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February 11, 1883
Jesse Nasta
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Alexander Foley and his wife reunited and remarried after forty years
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Foley, of Natchez, Mississippi, found his wife in 1891 in Carrollton, Kentucky. They had been separated by sale [in Virginia?]
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November 27, 1891
Jesse Nasta
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John Easton found his mother after decades of searching
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Easton, of Indianapolis, Indiana, found his mother, Clara Clounch, of Paducah, Kentucky. They were separated by sale when he was seven years old.
Reprinted from the Indianapolis Sentinel (Indianapolis, IN)
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July 3, 1892
Jesse Nasta
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Geo. Gardener searching for his father Jacob Gardener
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Geo. Gardener searching for his father Jacob Gardener. His father was emancipated in 1846, in Trimble County, Kentucky. He then went to Hanover, Indiana with his wife and daughter Martha Elizabeth Gardener.
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May 23, 1891
Jesse Nasta
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Amanda Fields search for her father Jordan Mias
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Amanda Fields looking for her father Jordan Mias. They were separated in Nashville, Tennessee, but Mias is now thought to be living in Burkesville, Kentucky.
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March 14, 1889
Erik Mickiewicz
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Brothers Joshua Collins and Solomon Collins meet in Cincinnati after decades-long separation
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They ran into each other in 1867. From Fleming County, Kentucky. Joshua bought his freedom in 1849. Solomon escaped to Canada in 1837.
The Cincinnati Commercial, October 10, 1867, published a much longer account of these brothers' reunion. For an online reprinted version of this longer article, see the Wilmington Daily Post (Wilmington, NC), October 15, 1867, pg. 1, newspapers.com.
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October 17, 1867
Jesse Nasta
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Jack Corkley finds his mother after 40 years
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Corkley, a Louisville, Kentucky, railroad porter, found his mother in Louisiana. She was sold away from him when he was a year old.
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January 23, 1879
Jesse Nasta
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Albert Harris and Mariah Harris reunite after 37 years and remarry
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Albert Harris and Mariah Harris were separated, in Kentucky, by sale 37 years earlier [ca 1849]. Albert Harris found his wife after searching since the Civil War.
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February 25, 1886
Jesse Nasta
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