D. J. Price searching for his nephew

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 24, 1880

Lucy Webb searching for her uncle Geo Mayes

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 1, 1880

MR. EDITOR— I wish to make another inquiry for my uncle, Geo Mayes. I have received a postal card from him once since you published him, and I have written five letters to him, and have not received a word from him since. I used to belong to Scoote Mayes. When we parted from each other he was living in Columbus, Tenn. His postal said to address him…

George Moore answering Maudy and Sallie Moore's ad

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 17, 1882

MR. EDITOR: One of your readers told me that two sisters, Maudy and Sallie Moore, have been inquiring for their people through your paper, about two or three months ago, but they could not find the paper the inquiry was in. My name is George Moore. Please send me their addresses. Write to me at Pickens Station, Miss. T. H. GREEN.

Mrs. Fanny Barber searching for her son John C. Evans (formerly John Barber)

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

March 23, 1882

MR. EDITOR—I read in your paper of Dec. 23, 1881, about my son. His name is John Barber, but changed to John C. Evans. He was sold to a trader in 1851, at the age of fourteen. I have written two letters but have received no answer. I am very anxious to hear of him, as I am alone in this world. Mrs. Fanny Barber, No. 257 Conti street, corner…

Jack McReynolds searching for his uncle Bill Orterson

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 28, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my uncle, Bill Orterson. Dicy McReynolds was my mother's name. My father was Jack McReynolds. Bill Orterson is my mother's brother. I never saw him, though I heard that he purchased his liberty before the war. A son of uncle Bill's was in Jefferson, Texas, since the war, in search of his father's brother, Dicy…

C. L. Crump searching for his grandparent's relative

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 30, 1881

Mr. Editor--By reading the SOUTHWESTERN some time in April, I saw an inquiry of a woman who said she was moved by John P. Crump, who lived within fifteen miles of Richmond, Virginia. That was my old master's name; all of my kin people came from that way somewhere. It may be some of my grandmother's or grandfather's people. My grandfather was…

James Lawrence searching for his wife Margaret Lawrence

Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (Knoxville, TN)

August 21, 1867

WANTED.
INFORMATION OF THE WHEREA-
BOUTS [WHEREABOUTS] of my wife, Margaret Lawrence, (colored) who
left Knoxville in June last to go to Georgia in search of her
father, who goes by the name of James Warden and James
Marshall. Nothing has been heard of said Margaret since
she left this place. It is supposed she has gone to Middle…

Robert Cox reunited with his wife after 24 years

Richmond Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)

February 27, 1879

MANCHESTER AND VICINITY.
Midlothian.-The quiet village of Midlo-
thian [Midlothian] was the scene of an incident several
days ago the like of which rarely occurs.
In the spring of 1855, Robert Cox, a negro,
belonging then to a gentleman in this vi-
cinity [vicinity], was married to a woman of the same
neighborhood. Several months after…

John Broadus searching for brother Eugene Broadus

The Washington Bee (Washington, DC)

September 5, 1896

WHERE IS EUGENE BROADUS?
Information is wanted of the whereabouts
of Eugene Broadus (colored),
30 years old, who was last heard from
in Washington, D.C., in 1895. Write
to his brother, John Broadus, Colfax,
Iowa, Sept. 5-6 t

Horace Carter searching for brother John Carter

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 18, 1879

DEAR EDITOR ----- My brother was sold in Richmond, Va., 35 years ago to Seward, and was carried to Texas. His name was John Carter. I saw a piece in your paper, I think it was him. He says his sister's name was Margaret and brother's name Henderson Carter, and he has four brothers. I have a sister, Margaret Carter, but my name is Horace Carter,…

Eugene T. Broaddus seeking information about brother John Broadus (Broaddus)

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

July 20, 1895

Do You Know Him?
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 8, 1895.
I want to find out the whereabouts
of my brother, John Henry Broaddus
His mother's name is Maria Churchwell,
nee Broaddus. He was born in
Caroline Co. He went away and left
me a small boy. He was about 38
years old. I am now 31. His father's
name is John Broaddus now living in…