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Mrs. Diana Johnson (nee Diana Hellard) is searching for information about her parents and siblings
Johnson wrote this information wanted letter to the county clerk in Buffalo, NY. Johnson, daughter of Jack and Hannah Hellard, was born in Rowan County, NC. She was sold away from her mother in 1840 and brought to Alabama, and from there to Texas, in…
Rosa Westbrooks is looking for her friend Lucy Wilder
Rosa Westbrooks is looking for her friend Lucy Wilder, who was last seen in Hillsboro, TX.
Bennie A. Smith is looking for his in-laws
Bennie A. Smith, who married Hattie Smith (nee Whitfield) is searching for Charlie, Granderson, and Isaac Whitfield, his in-laws.
Rachael Sharp is looking for her siblings
Rachael Sharp is looking for her sister Melvina and her brothers, Sam and John, who were last seen in Chicot, VA, where they were enslaved by Susie Sharp
Mahalia Johnson is searching for her mother
Mahalia Johnson is searching for her mother, Betsey Ann Taylor
Paralee Hammonds is looking for her son
Paralee Hammond is searching for her son, Turner Hammond, who was last seen in Itaska, TX
Green Morgan and Prudence Croan reunited and remarried after 30-year separation
Green Morgan and Prudence Croan [Prudence Brown?] remarried in Versailles, KY, in 1889. They had been separated there in 1858, when Prudence was sold and taken to a Louisiana plantation.
Manuel Rose searching for Victoria Chambers
Chambers was last heard of in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Geo. E. Lemon, attorney, searching for Sam Spoons Blakely
Sam Spoons/Sam Spoons Blakely was son of John Spoons/John Spoons Blakely, private of Co. B., 15th U.S.C.T.[Ad is presumably related to a Civil War pension application].
Charles Ross searching for soldiers he knew at Andersonville Prison during the Civil War
Ross, veteran of Co. H, 35th U.S. Colored Troops, searching for paroled Union prisoners who swam with him at Andersonville Prison, and others. [Probably for a pension application?]
Eliza Montgomery searching for her brother, Dick Bush
Dick "was the slave of Edward Bush, a negro trader, who was our father." Montgomery was sold in or near Nashville, Tennessee, when a child, and taken to Missouri. Her brother was sold to someone in Texas.
E. H. Lampkins searching for his former wife Mrs. Bennie Jacko (or Bennie Lampkins)
Lampkins is searching for Mrs. Bennie Lampkins/Mrs. Bennie Jacko. Her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Johnson, lived in San Marcos, Texas. Searcher lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Myrtle Royal Virginia Lester is searching for her grandparents
Myrtle, age 6 [born ca. 1895], is searching for her grandparents. Her father's name was Lee Royal Lester.
Mrs. Mary A. Riker searching for her son Joseph A. Riker
Her son served in Company B, 5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry, Civil War. He settled in Kansas in 1866. Riker needs information to prove her claim for a dependent mother's Civil War pension.
John Caesar Barber searching for his mother, Mrs. John Jackson
Barber went to Texas in 1866, leaving his mother in New Orleans, Louisiana
Amanda Fields Search for Her Father, Jordan Mias
Amanda Fields looking for her father Jordan Mias, who she was seperated from in Nashville, Tennessee
B. T. Davis Searching for His Aunt, Flora Hillard
B. T. Davis searching for his aunt Flora Hillard, who was sold in 1861
Tom Carnahan, the only black police officer in Lincoln, NE, finds his brother after two decades
Carnahan meets his brother, Silas, for the first time since the Civil War. They were "slave children in Arkansas and were separated by the war."
Brothers Henry Anderson and Sandy Anderson are looking for relatives
Anderson was sold away from Somerset County, Maryland, about six years before the Civil War.
Rev. Mack Henson finds his father
Rev. Henson, of Austin, Texas, finds his father after a decades-long search. His father traveled from Alabama to Austin to see him but died within two days.
Wesley Torry reunited with his wife after 21 years
The wife of Wesley Torry, of San Antonio, Texas, was sold away from him before the Civil War. They found each other 21 years later, in 1882.
Martha Cobble finds her two sons after a 40-year search
Cobble found her sons, Thurston Cobble and Ned Cobble. They were sold to a New Orleans slave trader in Richmond, VA, 40 years earlier, in 1849, to fund slaveholder's trip to gold rush California.
Joe Skinner searching for Edward Hayne
Skinner, Clarksdale, Texas, searching for Hayne, formerly of Jackson, Mississippi. Will pay $2.50 reward.
Frances Whipple searching for George Saddler
Last seen in Waco, TX, in 1866, by his sister-in-law, Phyliss Pettigrew