Rev. Charles Brown's people found

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 15, 1885

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MR. EDITOR--I am in search of
of my people who left South Caro
lina in 1867, bound for Mississippi,
with Bob Holmon. Their names
are Aunt Rose, Uncle Ben Menard,
children, Ralph, Winnie, Wash,
Edward, Hannah, Butler, Silvie.
Uncle Marshall Strother, his wife
Patty belonged to Ned Culbreath
Aunt Rose has my brother Billy
with her. I am mother's eldest son
and was born in Edgefield county,
South Carolina. Address Garland
City, Miller county, Ark, Rev.
Charley Brown.

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Rev. Charles Brown's writes to thank the Southwestern Christian Advocate for their assistance in finding his family who had been missing since 1867. They were in Crawford, MS one county over from him and he was reconnected with them on October 22, 1885, though some of them have since died. He writes of one subscriber who hopes the paper can reunite her with her people who have been lost for 35 or 40 years. He promises to do all he can for the paper.

Rev. Charley Brown took out an ad searching for his two aunts and uncles and their children through the Southwestern Christian Advocate on October 1, 1885. It can be found here:
https://informationwanted.org/items/show/2666
The story of Rev. Charley Brown's found relations got around and many people writing ads in this paper reference this success as their reason for writing their own ads.

Subject

Found Ad

Newspaper

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

Date

November 15, 1885

Searcher Location

Garland City, Miller County, AR

Searchee Location

Crawford, MS

South Carolina

Contributor

Daniel Runyon

Citation

"Rev. Charles Brown's people found," Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA), November 15, 1885, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, accessed April 27, 2024, https://informationwanted.org/items/show/2667