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Title
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Baptist Times (Garnett, KS)
Description
An account of the resource
1892
Text
Newspaper advertisements
State
Missouri
Texas
Tennessee
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Title
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Eliza Montgomery searching for her brother Dick Bush
Subject
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Information Wanted Ad
Description
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Dick "was the slave of Edward Bush, a negro trader, who was our father." Montgomery was sold in or near Nashville, Tennessee, when a child, and taken to Missouri. Her brother was sold to someone in Texas.
Source
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Baptist Times (Garnett, KS)
Date
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March 1892 [published in a monthly newspaper]
Contributor
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Jesse Nasta
Coverage
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Chillicothe, MO
TX (Texas)
Nashville, TN
Scripto
Transcription
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Lost.
I wish to find my brother, Dick
Bush. who was born in Tennessee,
and wae the slave of Edward Bush, a
negro trader, who was our father.
My mother, Fannie Bush, was sold to
Thompson, a negro trader, who sold
her and left us two very small children
alone. I was then sold, in or near
Nashville, Tenn. to a Mr. Holiway
who brought me to Mo. I was very
small then and went by the name of
Elza Bush. I am married now, and
my name is Eliza Montgomery. The
last time I heard of my brother, he
was sold to some one in Texas. Any
information of his whereabouts will
be thankfully received. Address,
Eliza Montgomery, 912, 3rd. St.
Chilicothe, Mo
Status
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Weight
dd
changed name
sibling(s)
slave trade
slave trader
sold south
white father