DEAR EDITOR--I wish to inquire for my children, named John, Jackson, and Davis. All belonged to Ehud Northsworthy, who went to Arkansas from Alabama. He sold me to James Low, who gave me to his daughter Mary, who married Seals Sillas, who brought me to Mississippi. I brought one child with me, but he is dead. Please address me at West Station, Holmes county, Miss., care Frank Kimes. SILVY SILLAS
MR. EDITOR—Please allow me to inquire for my people. I left them in West Virginia about 1858-9. They belonged to a man by the name of Wash Fairfax, in Preston County, near Kingwood. My eldest sister was named Charlotte. My brother was named James Bolton, he was about four years of age when we left there. Our father's name was Alfert; our mother's name was Sophia; mother had twins; both girls. Our father undertook to go to the free State (Pennsylvania) and was overtaken and brought back and then was sold. I am the eldest child; I was nicknamed Sailia. My name is Marcelious. My mother had a brother by the name of Watt. He belonged to the same man that we did. I had two cousins by the name of Taylor and John; they belonged to the same man. Wash Fairfax used to be sheriff of Monongahela Co , Virginia. He lived in Morgan Town at the time. Any information from any one will be gladly received. Address me M. S. COLLINS. Sturges, Oktebbeha Co., Miss.
MR. EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my relatives whom I left in Maryland about thirty-five years ago. My mother's name was Louisa; she had one afflicted sister named Mary. One of my sisters was named Harriet. We belonged to the Browning and Crocksaw estate. They owned a rope factory on Light street in Baltimore. I was sold at sheriff's sale for debt. The last I knew of mother she was living with a man named John Hemling. My name is Goorgeana, was about 16 years old when I was sold away. Mother limped a little when she walked. Address Georgeana Hodge, or Rev. A. Lockhart, Winchester, Tex.
DEAR EITTOR- I wish to inquire for my kin folks, father and uncle. My father is Henry Clay Finner, and uncle Jacob Finner. I was sold to Parson Cooper near Hickory Benton, Co, Miss. Four of us was sold, Susan, Margaret. John and Ann. Mother was Aimy Finner before she was sold, afterward we went by the name of Cooper. We were sold in 1858. Address AIMY FINNER. Care A. J. Cooper, Holly Springs Miss.
MR. EDITOR––I am desirous of finding out my people I left them in Alhermarle county, Virginia, near Charlottsville, twelve miles. I left in 1840 my brothers Richard and Jack. My name is William. Brother Richard was the oldest. My father's name was John Woods; he belonged to Dr. John Woods; his father, John Woods, was a farmer in about nine miles of Charlottesville. My mother's name was Aggie; my sister Malissa, one. My aunt's name was Aunt Rose, my mother's sister. My mistress was Mrs. Mildredge Rhodes; her mother was Mrs. Nancy Rhodes. I was sold and brought away by one Newton Bolely to Mississippi, then to New Orleans, La. I left them in the hands of their owner, Mrs. Nancy Rhodes. My uncles name were Scipio, Charles, Joe. My aunt Rose had two children; I am sure of George and one Martha. I am now sixty-six years old. My wife when I left there was named Patsy; her master's name was Braden I am a member of the M.E Church here. I am yours, Wm. Woods, Booneville, La, P.O. Bunkie, La., care of Rev. H.J. Wright.
MR. EDITOR- I wish to inquire for my people. My father's name was Ben, he belonged to a man by the name of Burry, near Greenville, S. C.; Mother's name was Eady, she belonged to John Paden. I had five sisters, I here give their names, Lucy, Matilda, Rosetta, Clearica, Harlow and Johnamandy. One brother, his name was Burzearley. I was sold upon the court house steps in Lawrenceville, Guinett, Ga., 35 or 40 years ago, to George Kurk, and brought to Chattuga, county, Ga. I came to Tennessee since the war. My name at that time was Harriett Caroline Calhatcher Paden. I am now known as Callie Willson. Please address Rev. J.T. Henry, my P.C.
MR. EDITOR-- I saw in the SOUTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE of Dec. 23, in the Texas Conference the name of S. M. Bolden. I have half brothers and an uncle in Texas somewhere and would be very glad to find them. They were sold before the war. I came out here since the war, about 15 years ago, from Virginia. My father's name is Isham Bolden; he used to belong to Nat Holling, Fluevanar county, near the old Virginia mill post. Address me at Cheneyville, Rapide parish, La., Rev. Braxton Bolden.
MR. EDITOR-- I wish to inquire for my wife's sisters. She left them in Virginia before the war started. Her oldest sister was Eliza Wade, the youngest was Martha Wade. Her mother was Matilda Wade, and her father Ben Sanders. Her old master was Jack Wade. After his death her sister Eliza was sold to James Canada, who lived near Floyd court house in Floyd county, Virginia. The youngest sister was willed to her old mistress, Mary Wade, who lived near Franklin court house, Franklin county, Virginia. My wife was Sophie Wade at the time, but they called her Puss for nick name. She was willed to his son, William Wade. Her uncles Isaiah and Gabriel belonged to Ira Hise. Please address Pilmit Whitfield, Askew Postoffice, Lee county, Ark.
MR. EDITOR-I wish a letter in the SOUTHWESTERN inquiring for my relatives. Father and mother were named Sam and Charlotte Mitchell; two sisters, Hannah and Ann Mitchell; and uncles named Sam Small, Adam Small and Ned Small, and also an uncle named Nator Wright who had three sons named Junius, Job and Gabriel Wright. Sam Small is the father of Adam and Ned Small, also of Ishmeal Grant, Davy Bryant and Albert Bryant. Davy Bryant is the father of Albert Bryant. Other uncles named John Bookey, Chubby Wilson, Burrell Wilson, Smart Nisbet; Kato Wilson is the father of Chubby and Burrell; Pompey Bookey is the father of John Bookey, also the step-father of Smart Nisbit. We all belonged to Joseph Allson of South Carolina; he sold us to a speculator named Anchor, who carried us to Salisbury, Roan county, North Carolina. Mr. Anchor sold me to a man in North Carolina named Quiller Mocke. Smart Nisbet told me that Mr. Anchor sold my other relatives to a man living in Charleston, South Carolina. I came to Texas the second year after emancipation. Any information that will enable me to find my people will be thankfully received. Address me at Cochrane, Austin county, Texas, in care of E. Johnson. COLLIER MITCHELL.
Mr. Editor -- I desire to find my kindred. Dicy Jones was my cousin, Rose Jones my aunt, and Antrim was my uncle. They all belong to Dr. Jones, and were sold in Natchez, Miss. Address K Ford, Washington, La.
MR EDITOR-- I wish to inquire through your paper for my father; his name was Malcom Williams. I was sold from him when I was 13 years old by Hirms Williams from Gwinnett county, Ga., where I was born. I was run off by my old time master and sold in Alabama. My mother died while I was in Alabama; her name was Perliner Willims. Also my two uncles, George Mulligan and Uton Mulligan. I was known at that time by the name of Green Williams; since freedom I change my name to Green Bolden, Conway, Ark.
MR. EDITOR-- Please allow me in your valuable columns a space to make some inquiries about my two brothers, the sons of Rayft Izard Sanders and of Rosa Sanders. The name of my two brothers are William and Izard Sanders. I left Izard in Charleston, S. C , when I was sold here in 1853, and William my oldest brother was sold somewhere in South Carolina, I do not know where. We used to belong to Solomon Legruy, Esq., who was living in Charleston and had a plantation on James Island. My father used to belong to C. D. Carr, the tailor, who kept a store on Broad street. My mother died in 1849, leaving four boys, the youngest one died shortly after her, which was Sorris. We three boys grew up at the tailor's trade until the death of our mother. and I, Daniel, used to belong to George B. Reed, Esq. Have the kindness to ask all ministers in South Carolina to read this letter to their congregation. My name is Daniel Sanders, living at the Island of False River, parish of Point Coupee, Ventress, P. O., La. Any information of their whereabouts will please address as above.
MR. EDITOR-- I desire to find my people, my father's brothers. I left my father in Macon, Miss., but he was sold in Mobile, Ala., and his name was Burrel Goodwin and his brother's name was Albert Goodwin and Ben Goodwin. Mother's name was Rose. Address George Houston Goodwin, Aberdeen, Miss.
MR. EDITOR-- Please inquire for my people in your paper. In slavery time I lived at Thibodeaux, La., and my mother's name was Hanah Gaile, and my younger sister was named Elizabeth Gaile and they were sold by William Gaile to a man named John Baptiste; he live northeast of Baton Rouge, and my other sister was named Eliza Gaile; she was sold to a Methodist preacher named Ferguson, lived in Thibodeaux, La., and my name was Anthony Gaile. I got crippled by a horse before I came to Texas. I was brought to Texas by a man named Gaile. Anybody knowing of any such person please address Anthony Peterson Montgomery, Texas.
MR. EDITOR--I wish to inquire for my father, brothers and sisters. My father's name was Thomas Jackson Mr Aaron Thornly owned him. He was sold before I was born. Mamma says Mr. Thornly carried father from Wytheville to Richmond, Va, and sold him. The young Mr. Thornly told mamma father was sent to Louisiana, and then Mr. Thornly carried mamma and her five children from Wythe ville, Va., to Bristol, Tenn., and from Bristol to Dalton, Ga., and there we parted. Mamma and brother Tom and myself was sold to Mr. W. A. Doughterty and was sent to Tennessee and left my brothers and sister in Dalton, Ga., with Mr. Aaron Thornly, two brothers and one little sister. My brothers named John Frank Jackson, and George Henry Jackson and my sister's name is Ann Maria Jackson. Mr. Thornly was in Georgia. The last account we heard of our people they were in Tennessee, in McMinn county. Any information of them would be thankfully received by Bettie G. Jackson, Carterville, Jasper county, Missouri.
DEAR EDITOR-- Please allow me space in your columns to make inquiry for my mother and brother. We were separated about the year 1852 or '53. My mother, two brothers and myself were all sold at an administrator's sale in Fayetteville, Washington Co., Arkansas. A Mr. Marts bought brother Pete and myself, and we are together yet. John Balingly got my mother and a baby brother. My mother's name was Lucy and brother's Henry. I had a sister, Julie, but she died. We all used to belong to E Iamiston before we were sold. Any information of the whereabouts of mother and brother will be very gladly received. Address me at Van Buren Crawford Co., Arkansas. SIMON MARRS.
MR. EDITOR-- I wish to inquire for my wife and children. Wife's name was Nancy. She used to belong to Matison Gunn, in Chicka-Co., Miss., and he sold her to R. D. Dick Price in 1862, and he sold her and children on Flint Creek, in Ga. I had by my wife five children, John, Reuben and Matt. I ask all the preachers to read this in their churches, and if they are found write to me at Moss Point, Jackson Co., Miss., in care of Rev. N. Cannon. LEWIS WRIGHT
MR. EDITOR-- I have received from Millwaukee, Wis., names of lost friends of a resident of that city. I understand that you publish such lists, and if by that means friends my be put in communication, how great would be the joy! I enclose the paper sent to me. Their mother's name is Nellie Furley. Milly Ann belonged to Robt. Logan and was sold down in Louisiana to Billy Perkins. Sam Furley belonged to Robt. Logan, in Lexington, Ky., and was sold to Col. Regans, Holly Springs, Tenn. Lydia Furley belonged to Logan, and was sold to Dick Fly, Tennessee. Their sisters names are Matilda, Susan, Mary and Dolly. Address me at 713 Grand Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. MATILDA HUGHES.
MR. EDITOR— Please allow me space to inquire for my brothers and sisters. There were four brothers and four sisters. Brothers named Tonny, Louis, Handy, and Sandy, but called Dick. Sisters were named Easter, Badery, Francis and Ellen, but she got burned to death. Mother died when I was a boy, her name was Beanny. We all belonged to Merderic B. McCray, in Montgomery county, North Carolina. Brothers were all sold to a man by the name of Tom Stokes five years before the war. And were carried from Montgomery to Lexington, S. C., by Tom Stokes and left there in care of Spruce McCray and Jerry Alleyton until the drove were mode up for shipment; brother Fanny ran away from Lexington and went back to Merderic B. McCray's in Montgomery, N. C. And they caught him, and uncle Emanuel, who ran away from a man by the name of Weathers in South Carolina. And they both were put in jail in Troy, Montgomery, N. C , and brought back to Lexington. Any information concerning them would be thankfully received. My name now is Handy Williams. Write to me in care of Rev. A. Foster Calvert, Robertson county, Texas. I am respectfully yours, HANDY WILLIAMS.
MR. EDITOR-- I desire to find my people; I left them in Pendleton county, West Va., when I was 12 years old. I belonged to Mr. John McClure and was sold to Mr. McDobbs with my uncle, James Gilmore. About the same time my mother was sold to a man in the South, but whereabout I don't know. Her name was Hannah McClure. I heard that my brother Aaron lived in Maryland county, Pa, and my aunts Julia, Mary and Vina, uncle Sam McClure, also my granmother, named Amy McClure. There was an aunt Jane, and a grandmother named Eliza, and I don't know how many more that I have forgotten. If found you will please address Mrs. Virginia Coaston, Morrow's P. O. St. Landry parish, La.
DEAR EDITOR-- I desire information of my husband, Joseph Oliver We lived in Coranio, and in 1864 I was sold from him and brought to Texas by Henry Thompson. I have a sister, Susan Murphy, and friends named George Chambers and Rutha Chambers. Please address me at Richmond, Fort Ben Co, Texas, in care of Rev. A.C. Culbreath, Pastor. MRS. DOLLEY OLIVER.
DEAR EDITOR-- I wish to make some inquiry about my uncle, John Pinkard. I left him in Bradley Co., Arkansas, in 1865, on the Saline river. Mother's name was Betsey Pinkard. She belonged to Tom Pinkard, was brought to Texas in 1863 and died in 1864. Address me at Groesbeck, Limestone Co., Texas. B. F. PINKARD.
LETTER OF INQUIRY. JACKSONVILLE, FLA., 1868. Information is wanted, by the Rev. Lymas A. Anders of Jacksonville, in the State of Florida, concerning his kinsfolk, who first belong to the Widow Cook of Effingham County, Ga., and who fell to Lewis Cook of Alabama or Mississippi, but who staid with a resident of Bullock County, Ga., two or three years, till removed by Lewis Cook to Alabama or Mississippi. I have not heard from them since 1830 or 1831. My father's name was Gideon Cook; my mother's, Betsy Cook; my three sisters, Sally, Mary Ann, and Chaney. My own name was then Lymas Cook, but now Lymas A. Anders. If this should meet the eye of any person acquainted with the parties herein named, or who can give any information concerning them, they will confer a great favor by addressing REV. LYMAS A. ANDERS (Box 191.) Jacksonville, Fla.
NOTICE! Information is wanted by Lymas Cook of Jacksonville, Fla., as to whether Gideon Cook, and his wife Betsey Cook, or their children, Sallie, Marie, Ann, and Chaney Cook, who first belonged to the Widow Cook of Effingham County, Ga., and who fell to Lewis Cook of Louisiana, but who staid with Gen. Lee of Bullock County, Ga., till removed to Louisiana by Lewis Cook, about the year -------, are now living: if so, as to their present whereabouts. If this should meet the eye of any person acquainted with the parties above named, or who can give any information concerning them, they will confer a great favor by addressing, LYMAS A. ANDRES, Jacksonville, Fla.
Of my two sonss, Sidney and Harrison who belonged to Olean. Cannon, who formerly lived in Shelbyville, Bedford county Tenn., and were sold to Goodbar, a trader, and when last heard from were in Montgomery, Ala. The oldest one is about 26 years of age. My name is Sidney. When they left I belonged to a man by the name of Elliott. Information of them will be thankfully received by myself or their mother, whose name is Eliza Cannon. Please address Colored Tennessean, Box 1150 Jan13-1m SYDNEY ELLIOTT.