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Eliza Handy (formerly Eliza Dancey) searching for her children Mollida Barnett, Mary Slaughter, and Ellen
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
July 22, 1880
DEAR EDITOR- I wish to inquire for my three children. Mollida Barnett, the first one, left me about 40 years ago, was bought by speculators in Charlotte, N.C., and carried to Columbus, Ala. Mary Slaughter was carried from Canton to New Orleans. She belonged to Lewis Slaughter, who sold her in New Orleans, where he kept a tavern. Daughter Ellen…
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Noah Foltz (formerly Noah Connor) seeking his mother Peggy Connor and siblings
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
October 6, 1881
DEAR EDITOR—I am anxious to hear of my kinfolks. I left them in North Carolina in 1859. My mother was Peggy Connor. Father was sold from mother in 1858. We lived in Madison county. I had three brothers, Alex, Chemond and Rue, and two sisters, Sarah and Caroline. Brother Alex was sold to a man in Charlotte, S.C. I have a sister Betsey, who was…
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Augustus and Lutitia Bryant searching for their five children
The Colored Tennessean (Nashville, TN)
March 24, 1866
Of our five children, whom we have not seen for four years. Their names are as follows, viz: Josephine, aged 20 years; Cella, aged 14 years; Caroline, aged 13 years; Ellen, aged 10 years, and Augusta, aged 8 years. They were in Charlotte, N.C., or at Rock Hill when we last heard from them. Any information concerning these children will be…
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Harriet Holman (formerly Harriet Switzer) searching for her children
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
March 8, 1883
MR. EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my children, whom I left before the war. There were eight. The boys were Ephraim, Andrew, Milas, Silas, James, Henry and George Washington. My name was Harriet Switzer. I belonged to George Switzer, near Newton, Lincoln county, N.C. Alex Boss, their father, died four years before the war. Ephraim belonged to George…
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