Martha Cobble finds her sons Thurston Cobble and Ned Cobble after a 40-year search

The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)

August 16, 1889

A Mother's Search.
An interesting incident has just been
brought to light in Owensboro, Ky., in
which Martha Cobble, who served a
great portion of her life in slavery in
Virginia, and who forty years ago was
separated from her children, is the he-
roine. The mother and her offspring
were owned by a planter in Richmond,
Va., and at the…

Mary Johnson found her son Charles Jackson

The Cleveland Gazette (Cleveland, OH)

March 14, 1891

MRS. MARY JOHNSON writes the editor
of THE GAZETTE that she has found her
son Charles, whom she has not seen for
ten years, by advertising in this journal,
and adds: “THE GAZETTE is a great race
newspaper.” The general verdict.

Mary Stowers found her son Willis Green after 28-year separation

The Owensboro Monitor (Owensboro, KY)

May 6, 1874

A Long Lost Mother.
----
[Evansville Journal.]

Twenty-eight years ago Mary Stowers,
a slave woman, belonging to Harrison
Stowers, of Owensboro, was sold to parties
living in Shelby county, Kentucky, and
was with her little girl of two years
taken away, leaving her boy, Willis
Green, then four years old, with her
former master,…

May Frances Thomas and Walter Thomas searching for father Lewis Thomas now Rev. Lewis Hudson

The New York Freeman (New York, NY)

February 26, 1887

First Ad: BOSTON. INFORMATION WANTED of the whereabouts of our father. LEWIS THOMAS, now said to be Rev. Lewis Hudson, pastor of a Baptist Church in Mississippi. He was formerly owned by a man named Shepard Miller, and was sold into the far South. Any one knowing where he may be found will kindly inform May Frances Thomas and Walter Thomas, at No.…

Milton Douglas reuniting with his wife

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 7, 1882

We find this paragraph in the Charleston Advocate: Milton Douglas, an Edgefield (S. O.) negro, was married while a slave in 1859 to a colored girl in that county. After three months of wedded life he was sold and sent West. His wife married again, her second husband dying a few months ago. Milton, who had not been heard from since 1859 returned…

Mr. Ambrose reunited with his family

National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)

October 12, 1865

A FAMILY REUNION. HOW AN ESCAPED SLAVE BECAME WEALTHY AND DISCOVERED HIS RELATIVES. A Chicago paper tells the story of the return to the South of an escaped slave, who had amassed wealth in the North, and recently started on a journey to discover his relatives, whom he found in Louisiana. The story is as follows: "A few years ago, a runaway…

Mr. Goosland [Rev. Matthew Goosland], sold in 1847, finds his sister

New National Era (Washington, DC)

April 11, 1872

Story of a Slave Family.
The following is the story of a Mr. Goos-
land [Goosland], now a resident of Oberlin:
In 1847 he was sold from his wife and chil-
dren [children] in Wytheville, Virginia, and taken to
Mobile Alabama, where, after seven years
of great economy, he purchased his freedom
for the sum of $750. Soon after gaining his…

Mr. J. Sims reunited with his two sisters

The Colored American (Washington, DC)

November 25, 1899

Mr. J. Sims, of Capitol Hill, is rejoic
ing [rejoicing] over the arrival his two sisters from
Mississippi, from whom he was sepa
rated [separated] on the outbreak of the Civil War,
and only ascertained their whereabouts
a few months ago.

Mr. Wm. Page Found by his relative Mrs. Maria McSpadden

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 9, 1885

Card of Thanks. Rev. M. W. Taylor, Editor of the SOUTHWESTERN―Dear Sir: I am happy to make the acknowledgment to your valuable paper of my success in finding the whereabouts of my relative, Mr. Wm. Page, for which I thank you, and I take great pleasure in recommending the SOUTHWESTERN to every one, as I think it is a paper that should be in every…

Mrs. Amy Frenchy (formerly Amy Morris and Amy Baxter) found her mother Feraby

The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory)

May 4, 1884

AFTER MANY DAYS,
A Former Slave Hears from
Her Old Home.
A Separation of Thirty Years
Having Elapsed.
A Scrap of History.
Years before the war of the rebellion,
Wm. Eli Baxter, a lawyer and planter,
lived in Hancock county, Georgia, not
far from the town of Sparta. He own-
ed [owned] 150 slaves, among the number, Fer-
aby [Feraby],…

Mrs. Anna Mollie Wright reunited with her daughter Mrs. Anna Freeman after 29 years

The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, WV)

April 11, 1892

AFTER TWENTY-NINE YEARS
A Mother and Daughter are Reunited.
The Daughter a Clarksburg Woman who
Was Sold During Slavery Days.
Special Dispatch to the Intelligencer.
FINDLAY, O., April 10.-A remarkable
reunion of mother and daughter who
had been cruelly torn from each other
at the slave block in 1863 has just taken
place in this city.…

Mrs. D. Thornell reunited with her father William Moss

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

May 9, 1891

The Lost Found.Mr. and Mrs. D. Thornell of Brad-ford [Bradford], Pa. are in the city on a visit to her father, William Moss, of this city. It seems that Mrs. Thornell has been awayfor 20 years. Recently she had an en-quiring [enquiring] notice inserted in the PLANET, inorder to find her father. He saw it and wrote to her. The result is that she,…

Mrs. Ellen Craft finds her mother

National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)

August 12, 1865

ELLEN CRAFT AND HER MOTHER NEW YORK, July 31, 1865. To the Editor of the Standard: THE following autograph letter from Maj.-Gen. Wilson was elicited by an enquiry in behalf of Ellen Craft, now resident in England, for her mother, one of the redeemed from out of the house of bondage. The good will and courtesy of the General need no commendation…

Mrs. Jas. Coakley found her uncle (2nd of 2 ads)

The Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

November 13, 1909

FOUND HER UNCLE

The Planet as an Advertising
Medium.

The publication of an enquiry
notice in the columns of the
PLANET recently brought the fol-
lowing results:
214[?] 14th Street.
New Albany, Ind., Dec. 21, 1909.
DEAR EDITOR.—
I write to inform you that I have
found my uncle whom I have been
looking for. I can not express…

Mrs. Josephine Bass found her relatives

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

February 4, 1893

Relatives Found.Mrs. Josephine Bass of Memphis, Tenn. in the PLaNET of the 21st, advertised for relatives whom she had not seen for thirty-one years.She has found them. They called at this office this week and proceeded at once to correspond to her. Only two are now alive.A gentleman in Washington found his long lost sister in the same manner. He…

Mrs. Louisa Fry reunited with her mother, "Aunty" Strong, for first time since the Civil War

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)

March 22, 1908

FOUND HER AGED MOTHER
Reunion After Separation During
Slavery Days
Special to The Inquirer.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March 21.—
Mrs. Louisa Fry, an aged colored woman
of Pleasantville, has just found her moth-
er [mother], whom she has not seen since the slaves
on a plantation near Charlottesburg, Va.,
were liberated at the close of the…

Mrs. Maria Calmikle finds her family after 31 years

Daily Republican (Wilmington, DE)

December 6, 1889

A Memory of Slavery Days.
CAPE MAY, Dec. 5. - Colonel H. W.
Sawyer has in his employ as a cook a col-
ored woman, Mrs. Marcia Calmikle, who
was born of slave parents and was sepa-
rated from her mother by the latter's be-
ing sold when she was but 1 month old.
She is now 31 years of age and has just
heard of the whereabouts of her…

Mrs. R. W. Williams' reply to information wanted ad for Charlie Oliver

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

February 8, 1902

She Knows Them.

RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 20, '02.

Mr. Editor,

Dear Sir:-

I saw an advertisement in
your paper last week. One Charlie Oli-
ver wants to find some of his relatives.
I am well acquainted with all of his
people who now live in King William
Co., Va.
For further information call at No.
911 N. 32nd St.

Mrs. R. W. WILLIAMS.

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

Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA)

July 12, 1891

WERE SOLD IN SLAVERY.

Story of Two Sisters Who Were Reunited
After Forty-Two Years.

BONNE TERRE, Mo., July 11.--An event
rather out of the usual line occurred here
this week in the meeting of two sisters,col-
ored women, who under the operation of the
old slavery regime were separated 42 years
ago, when both were children, and had…

Naro Gillespie found his relatives (3rd of 3 ads)

Southwestern Christian Recorder (New Orleans, LA)

December 1, 1881

SIR ----- I feel very thankful for
your paper which was the cause of
my finding my relatives that I
thought were dead. I found them
in Sweet Home, Arkansas.
Yours respectfully,
NARO GILLESPIE
Egypt, Miss.

Nat Miller reunited with his sister

Lawrence Daily World (Lawrence, KS)

March 28, 1904

After fifty years of separation,
Nat Miller, the colored janitor has
found his sister whom he lost during
slavery times Nat Miller is now
54 years old and his sister about 67.

Nellie Jones reunited with her husband Ed. Jones

The State Ledger (Topeka, KS)

May 12, 1893

Relations of Peter Page Found

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 9, 1885

Peter Page, born and raised in
Louisville, Ky. Father's name was
Peter Page; mother's name was
Maria Page; used to belong to
Throckmorton, in Louisville, who
kept the Galt House, has a brother
and sister, whose names are Wil-
liam and Mary. The rest of the
brothers and sisters are dead. Wil-
liam is living at Rosedale, Iberville…

Response given to Betsy Chatman searching for brother George Chatman or George Chapman

Clinch Valley News (Tazewell Courthouse, VA)

August 26, 1892

INFORMATION WANTED.
The Charlotte Gazette, published
at Smithfield, Va., publishes the
following:
"Betsy Chatman wishes to obtain
some intelligence of her brother,
George Chatman, colored, who lived
at Tazewell C. H. at the time of the
surrender. The last intelligence
heard of him, still at that place, was
about 14 years ago.…

Rev. Charles Brown's people found

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 15, 1885

MR. EDITOR--I am in search of
of my people who left South Caro
lina in 1867, bound for Mississippi,
with Bob Holmon. Their names
are Aunt Rose, Uncle Ben Menard,
children, Ralph, Winnie, Wash,
Edward, Hannah, Butler, Silvie.
Uncle Marshall Strother, his wife
Patty belonged to Ned Culbreath
Aunt Rose has my brother Billy
with her.…