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Elizabeth Wells searching for her sisters Julia and Catharine

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 14, 1877

Five sisters of us belonged to Mrs.
Clark, a widow woman, living six
miles from Liberty, Bradford Co.,
Virginia. Three of us, Martha, Isa-
bella, and Elizabeth, were sold to
her brother, Mr. Ironton, who
brought us to Mississippi, where we
now live. We desire information
concerning the two younger sisters,
Julia and Catharine, whom…

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Mrs. Francis Chilcoat searching for her siblings Emiline Octavia, Rhoda, John, Henry, and James Leftwich

The Appeal (Chicago, IL)

September 3, 1892

I desire to find my sisters Emeline, Octavia and
Rhoda and my brothers John, Henry and James
Leftwich. We belonged to Maj. Tom Leftwich at
Liberty, Bedford Co., Va., before the war when I
last saw them. In about 1855 I was brought to
Mississippi by a speculator and sold to one Abe
Chilcoat with whom I lived until freedom. My
name was…

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