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  • Tags: emancipation
  • Emancipation refers to people identified as having been freed either by their enslaver prior to the Civil War or via the Thirteenth Amendment after the war (1865).

Kitty Presnell (formerly Kitty Paxton) searching for her children Davie, Maria, and Cathrine (2nd of 2 ads placed)

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Wm. Garnet searching for his wife Jane and children Willis, Abraham, and Jeney

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Nelson Hart searching for his sister Harriet Shipley

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Richard Jones and Jane Vaughn reunited and married in 1899

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Harrison Bradley and his wife reunite after 21 years and remarry

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John Bosan looking for his father Abe Bosan

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Brothers Nathan Branch and Lee Branch reunited after 66 years

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Lucinda Singletery searching for her unnamed mother and several siblings

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Jane searching for her sister Lydia Calcoat and several female relatives

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Geo. Gardiner searching for his father Jacob Gardiner

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Julia A. Clark seeking information about her brothers Reuben and William Gibbons and her sister America Jane Godsey (2nd of 2 ads)

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Hazel Phillip seeking information about her sister Emma Thompson

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Alexander Reynolds looking for information about his father Jacob and several members of his family

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Willie Price searching for sons John and Dorse Price

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Rev. R. T. Queen searching for information of his sister Margaret Annie Queen

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John Thompson and Kitty Owens reunited and married after 25 years

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"Uncle Levi" and "Aunt Aggie" reunited and remarried after 40 years

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Mrs. Woodsen finds sister Mrs. Culton after 42-year separation

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Mary Ellen Chapman searching for her family

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Ed Kneeright searching for his grandmother Lucy Walter and her children Rachel, Cherry, and Sam Walter

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Rev. Cyrus Boey searching for his brothers Nelson and Wesley Smothers and six sisters

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Mrs. Jane McGee seeking her son William Pascal McGee and daughters Isabella and Easter Fanny McGee

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Eliza Gedding (formerly Eliza Fry) searching for her daughter Sarah Francis Brown

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Mrs. Francis Chilcoat searching for her siblings Emiline Octavia, Rhoda, John, Henry, and James Leftwich

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Andrew Jackson Cook looking for his father Robert Cook

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