Sperrial Peyton Brooks searching for his mother and fifteen brothers and sisters
Title
Sperrial Peyton Brooks searching for his mother and fifteen brothers and sisters
Subject
Information Wanted Ad
Description
Sperrial Peyton Brooks searching for his mother and fifteen siblings. His mother "gave him away to a neighbor to raise." Unclear if his mother was enslaved or free at the time.
Source
Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, NE)
Date
December 8, 1911
Relation
Also called "Payton Brooks" in Omaha city directories (source: ancestry.com)
Coverage
Omaha, NE
Poppleton, WV
Contributor
Jesse Nasta
Publisher
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress
Transcription
Colored Man Seeks Relatives—Sper-
rial Peyton Brooks, an aged colored man
is seeking information as to the where-
abouts of his mother and relatives, who
he last heard from in Poppleton, W. Va.
He says that when a lad his mother gave
him away to a neighbor to raise, and
then she moved away. He says that he
has fifteen brothers and sister and he
would like to get in touch with some of
them.
rial Peyton Brooks, an aged colored man
is seeking information as to the where-
abouts of his mother and relatives, who
he last heard from in Poppleton, W. Va.
He says that when a lad his mother gave
him away to a neighbor to raise, and
then she moved away. He says that he
has fifteen brothers and sister and he
would like to get in touch with some of
them.
State
Nebraska
West Virginia
Collection
Citation
“Sperrial Peyton Brooks searching for his mother and fifteen brothers and sisters,” Information Wanted Ad, Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, NE), December 8, 1911, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, accessed March 7, 2021, http://informationwanted.org/items/show/2296.
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