Searching for sister Louisa and brother Curg. They belonged to Gip. Powell, near Buffalo, West Virginia, before the Civil War. Searcher works at Panola Oilworks, Memphis, Tennessee.
Nathaniel Dunmore is searching for soldiers who know details of Edmond Dunmore's death. Enlisted from Pennsylvania during the Civil War. [Presumably related to a Civil War pension application].
Emmanuel and Caroline Jacobs searching for their son. He was "a slave of Daniel R. McNeal," Hardy County, VA. "Sold to Southern traders" before the Civil War.
Married "long before John Brown's Insurrection." Husband, of Harpers' Ferry, VA [now Harpers Ferry, WV], sold to Richmond, VA. Has not heard from him since.
Rev. L. M. Hagood is searching for Martha Batts. Four or five years ago she lived 8 miles east of Athens, AL but told her sister she was going to move on to the Elk River. Her husband was named David Batts. Her sister Caroline left her 11 years ago…
Sperrial Peyton Brooks, Omaha, NE, searching for his mother and fifteen siblings. His mother "gave him away to a neighbor to raise." Unclear if his mother was enslaved or free at the time.
The Clinch Valley News is informing Betsy Chatman/Betsy Chapman of Smithfield, VA, that her brother, George Chatman/George Chapman, who she'd searched for through the Charlotte Gazette, is dead