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Wm. Simpson searching for his family

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 21, 1882

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to inquire
for my mother, three sisters, and
one brother, the names of whom
are as follows: My mother's name
when last I heard from her was
Betsey Clark; my brother's name
was Adolphus Clark; my three
sisters names were Adeline Clark,
Serella Clark, and the third one is
the daughter which she had after
we…

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Wm. McKenzie searching for his brother Lennies and sister Dinna McKenzie

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 28, 1882

MR. EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my brother and sister, who were sold before I was born, in Mississippi, by D.D. McKenzie. He lived in Tennessee and had two sons John and Joe, and daughters Lucinda and Rebecca. They were sold in Memphis, at public sale. Our mother is living, but father has been dead nineteen years My brother was Lennies and sister…

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William Woods searching for his family including his two brothers

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

January 5, 1888

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…

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William Sanders (formerly Derry Sanders) searching for his daughter Hannah

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

May 11, 1882

Dear Editor --- I wish to inquire about my daughter Hannah. Joe Carter sold her to Jim Hughes when five years old, in Tishomingo co., Miss. Her mother's name is Violet. I went by the name of Derry Sanders. My mother is Dian[undecipherable]. I left them all in Tishomingo in 1849. Address me at Hawkins, Texas. WM SANDERS

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William Mills

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 8, 1881

MR. EDITOR: ---- I wish to inquire
for my kin people. I left them in
Hinds county, Mississippi, as well
as I can remember, near a little
station called Mt. Albert, living
with John McDaniel. They
belonged to William McDaniel,
brother of John. I left them there
about 1833. My father name
Sharper, mother's Nellie, my oldest…

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William Davis and his sister Mary reunited after forty years separation

Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)

August 14, 1897

SEPARATED FOR FORTY YEARS. Strange History of William Davis and His Sister, Once Slaves. Niles, Mich. Aug. 10. - Forty years ago William Davis and his sister Mary were slaves in the family of James Matlock, a rich Georgia planter. Just before the war Matlock died and William and Mary were sold to pay the debts of the estate. They were parted and…

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William Butler seeking his sister Harriet

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 2, 1886

Mr. Editor - I want to find my
sister Harriet. She used to be-
long [belong] to Mrs. Sallie Butler, but was
sold to Mr. Obediah Smith, in
Sumner county, Ky. Edward But-
ler's [Butler's] daughters were Bettie and
Margaret Owens. I am named
Wm. Butler, and live at Princeton,
Gibson county, Indiana.

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Washington Thompson searching for his father Joseph Thompson

New National Era (Washington, DC)

March 27, 1873

INFORMATION WANTED.
I was sold away from my father, who lived in Richmond, Va., fifteen years ago. My father's name was Joseph Thompson. Any information concerning his whereabouts will be thankfully received by WASHINGTON THOMPSON, New York Mill, Oneida county, N. Y. mar27-2t

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Washington Ellerson searching for his mother Lucinda Lumpkins

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 7, 1882

MR. EDITOR: I desire to inquire through your paper for my long lost mother. We were sold in New Orleans on the same day. I was sold to a man by the name of Dr. Mitchell, who lived in Mississippi. I can not remember the man's name that mother was sold to. However, I was taken by my new master up the river, and mother was taken down the river by…

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Walker Thornton searching for his mother Lucy Winston

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 14, 1886

MR. EDITOR -- I wish to find my mother, whose maiden name was Lucy Rogers, afterwaads [afterwards] Lucy Thornton, latterly Lucy Winston. She formerly belonged to Jack Combs, Montgomery county, Ky., was sold from that place in 1861. I have not seen her since; but heard she was in Missouri. Any information as to her whereabouts will be gladly…

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Wade Hampton searching for Lewis Hampton-Massey

The Appeal (Chicago, IL)

January 10, 1891

LEWIS HAMPTON-MASSEY.––He was a slave, and at the age of five or six years was taken from the town of Chesterfield, S.C., by a man named Gideon, who took him to Florida between 1850 and 1860. Our master's name was Jas. Massey, who owned large grist mill and distillery on Lynch's Creek. Address Wade Hampton, Clear Creek, N. Y.

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W.S. Meyers searching for their brother George

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 19, 1883

DEAR EDITOR:--I wish to inqure for my brother. His name was George; he belonged to Elizabeth Madison, the wife of Balos Madison. They sold him to John Benson, who carried him to Arkansas, and have never heard of him since. My mother was Rachel Masters; she belonged to Jesse Masters. When he was carried away I was quite small and lived in Oktibbeha…

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W. D. Davis searching for friends Adline/Adeline Baily and Tommy Kingsbury

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 3, 1881

MR. EDITOR -- I wish to inquire for my friends, named Adline Baily and Tommy Kingsbury. The first belonged to the old widow White that lived at Buck Snort, Miss., and they went from Mississippi, up on the Pigeon Roost plank road, and stayed there three years, and Tommy went from there to Hernando, Miss., and Ned White sold Tommy to Kingsbury, and…

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Valentine Toliver searching for their sister Pinnie and brother-in-law Robert

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

December 16, 1886

MR. EDITOR--I have found out where my brother Emanuel and Stephen are by the help of the SOUTHWESTERN. So please to make another inquiry for my sister Pinnie and her husband Robin; Robert is his name, but they call him Robin; their eldest sons are named Stephen and Richard, and girls are Mame, Emmer and Caroline. I haven't called half of her…

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Unknown searching for family

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 8, 1882

MR. EDITOR: I want to inquire
for my people. My father's name is
Jack Silas and mother's Julian, my
oldest brother's Billie, Silas. Sisters
Francis and Cilvil Grace. I had
two uncles by the names of
Somerset and Leboy. Our owner's
name was Mack Ledell. I left
them in East Florida, Alachua
County, I was seventeen years old…

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Umphry Brown seeking information of his family

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

May 13, 1886

MR. EDITOR - I desire to find
my people. My father was named
Harry Brown; mother Malinda
Brown. There were eleven children
of us, eight brothers and three
sisters. Names of the boys: eldest
David, Bob, John, Humphrey,
Phenton, Newman, Dennis, and
Eleven; girls: Alcinda, Manda
and Mary. I left them in Virginia.
Phenton died…

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Tinsley Morgan searching for his wife's son Wm. Davidson

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

March 4, 1886

MR. EDITOR ---- I desire to find my wife's son; he left here in 1881; was carried off by a dentist named Dr. Skelly; they settled at Meridian, Tex, and moved from there to Grape Vine, and the last time we heard from him was in 1882. Any information of him will be gladly received. His name is Wm. Davidson. Address Tinsley Morgan, West Point, Clay…

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Thomas Mullen searching for his father Hunphrey Hannford, mother Maria Mocksey and siblings

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 8, 1886

MR. EDITOR―I desire to inquire through your paper for my people. I left them, in 1839, on the eastern shores of Virginia. I belonged to a man by the name of Jas Mocksey, was bought from Mocksey by a man named Harvey and sold by a man named Dozier. I was six years of age when sold, myself and another brother. My father's name was Hunphrey Hannford.…

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Thomas McAfee seeking his father Alfred Guntor

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 9, 1886

MR. EDITOR--I wi6h to inquire
for my people. Thir names are
McAfee. I do not see the names
of any of the McAfee family in the
SOUTHWESTERN. I look every
week to see if any of them is in
reach of the paper. If any one
knows the whereabouts of any of
the McAfees, please address T.
McAfee, Spinks, Kemper county,
Miss. I want to…

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Tenie L. Robinson

The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)

March 12, 1892

I desire information concerning my mother's
aunt, whose name was Lucinda Moore. Her
home was in Pittsburgh, Pa My grand mother,
her siste-in-law [sister], whose original name was
Mrs. Mary Hill, has not heard from her since
before the war. Her brother, George Hill,
died about six years before the war, aboard a steamer
enroute from St.…

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T. H. Taylor searching for her mother's daughter Martha Norman

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 15, 1885

MR. EDITOR--I wish to inquire
through your valuable paper for
my mother's daughter, who was
sold from her when seven years
old. She was sold from her and
carried away, riding behind a Ne-
gro trader. She belonged, as my
mother did, to John Green, but he
becoming broke sold her and all
the children and her husband to
different…

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Sydney Elliott and Eliza Cannon searching for their sons Sidney and Harrison

The Colored Tennessean (Nashville, TN)

March 22, 1866

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…

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Susan Shackelford searching for her family

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

February 22, 1883

DEAR EDITOR:--I desire information of my people, I was my mother's oldest child. Grandmother was Charlotte Cox. My aunts were Patience, Margaret and Rosetta and Julia Cox; aunt Julia was the youngest. We belonged to Wm. Cox in Chambers County, Alabama, and were sold and brought to near Huntsville, Texas, in 1854, by Robert Mayer. I married Samuel…

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Susan Briggs searching for her siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

December 14, 1882

DEAR SIR: Please insert in your paper inquiry for the following persons: Diana, Robert, William and Johnny Carthorn, colored. Direct them to correspond with Susan Briggs, Ripley, Miss., in care of Phil. Gray. Susan was brought from Richmond, Va., in 1850, by speculators. She was brought from Mr. Carthorn, and they were her brothers and sisters.…

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Stephen Jackson (formerly Stephen Alford) searching for his relatives including sisters Milly, Mollie, and Jennie Alford

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 12, 1886

MR.EDITOR--I wish to inquire for my relatives--my mother, sisters and brothers. Sisters were named Milly, Mollie and Jennie Alford. I learn that mother is dead; her name was Diana Alford. I left two or three other sisters behind but I can not think of their names. I was small when I left North Carolina, Walker county. Sister Evaline and I left at…

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