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Three brothers, George Drane, Phil Dougherty, and Charley Dougherty, reunited after 60 years

Brothers reunite sixty years after being separated by sale in New Orleans in 1859

Tags: auction block, found, reunion, reunited, slave trade, Slave trade- New Orleans LA

Tags: auction block, found, reunion, reunited, slave trade, Virginia

Mrs. Woodsen finds little sister, Mrs. Culton, of Bonne Terre, Missouri

Tags: found, reunion, slave trade

Elizabeth Jones, Danville, VA, searching for family she left in Virginia

Tags: Alabama, Ellis Place (in Stafford County VA), found, Petersburg VA, response, reunion, Richmond Planet (African American Newspaper), Slave trade- Petersburg VA, Slave trade- Richmond VA, Stafford County VA, Virginia

First Ad: May Frances and Walter Thomas looking for father Lewis Thomas
Second Ad: May France and Walter Thomas found their father

Tags: Baptist church, Boston MA, found, Freeman, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York Freeman, response, reunion, slave trade

S.G. Wilson reports that he found father through ad

Tags: Appeal, found, response, reunion, Salt Lake City UT, Utah, Western Appeal