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Green Morgan and Prudence Croan reunited and remarried after 30-year separation

The Examiner (San Francisco, CA)

February 6, 1889

OLD, BUT STILL LOVING.
Remated After a Separation of Thirty
Years.
CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS.
Uncle Green and Aunt Prudence Go Down to the
Grave Together After All.
[Special to the EXAMINER.]
VERSAILLES (Ky.), February 5. -- A marriage
ceremony in the colored Methodist Church
here to-day developed in an ante-bellum ro-
mance [romance] of…

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Jeff Frierson and Mary Burt reunited and remarried after 44-year separation

The Nashville American (Nashville, TN)

September 25, 1903

AFTER FORTY-FOUR YEARS

Jeff Frierson and Mary Burt Are Reunited
in Marriage.

Special Dispatch to The American.

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 24. --
A somewhat romantic marriage occurred
in colored circles last night. The
facts about it are these: Before the
Civil War, and in slave times, Jeff
Frierson, a slave belonging to the…

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Ellen Johnson reunited with her mother after 50 years

The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

September 12, 1885

A NOTABLE GATHERING.
Five Generations Meet in This City--
A Family's Strange History.

Yesterday morning a reporter was directed
to visit No.246 Linden square, where a
colored family by the name of Johnson resided,
and assured that he would there find
an interesting item. Ellen Johnson, the
mistress of the house, told a very peculiar…

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James Dogan found his first wife and his family

Reading Times and Dispatch (Reading, PA)

July 26, 1871

POTTSTOWN has an Enoch Arden in the
shape of a colored man named James Dogan,
who was a slave prior to the rebellion, and,
escaping into the Union lines, afterwards be-
came [became] a soldier and fought all through the
war. He became separated from his family,
and not hearing from them for several years,
subsequently married again.…

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B. Rush Plumly is writing of the reunited family of Mr. Ambrose Brackens.

New Orleans Tribune (New Orleans, LA)

January 1, 1865

A Family Reconstructed Our readers recollect the Notice to the Friends of Humanity, on behalf of Mr. W. Ambrose, of Chicago, then in search for his mother, brothers and sisters, which appeared a few days ago in our columns. The following letter, conveying the glad tiding of the reunion of all the members of the family, will be read with uncommon…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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James Davidson found his daughter Miss Lena Davidson

The State Ledger (Topeka, KS)

April 13, 1894

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Unnamed father and son reunited

National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)

August 9, 1862

A Strange Incident.—Six years ago, a young black man in Maryland, tired of being a slave, took advantage of a propitious night, and ran away to Canada. On sending back an occasional message to his aged father, who remained behind in bonds, he found means, for some time, of procuring answers, until at length no more answers came. Then for five…

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