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Robert Nowland looking for his family

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

June 21, 1893

Do You Know Them?DANVILLE, Va, June 13, '93.I am inquiring for my people who went out to Texas a good many years. Prairie Plains, Grimes Co., Texas, and I cannot hear from them. My father's name is Harrison Now-lan [Nowlan]. my mother's name is Elvira Nowland. I have also three broth-ers [brothers], Coleman, Winfree, and Gran-ville [Granville],…

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Mrs. Sallie Warner (formerly Sallie Caloway) searching for her siblings William, Washington, Jerry, and others

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 26, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I am the young-est [youngest] child of our family, and wasborn in Franklin county, Virginia.My first owner's name was JamesCaloway, of Franklin. I was soldwhen quite a girl. My name isSally Caloway and mother's wasJudy Caloway. Mother died whenI was about five years old. I am atwin child, the boy died. I leftthree brothers, William,…

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Sophia Whitfield searching for her two sisters and two aunts

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 3, 1884

MR. EDITOR--I wish to inquire
for some of my people--two sisters
and two aunts. They and myself
belonged to Jack Wade, after which
we were sold as follows: My oldest
sister, Eliza Wade, was sold to Jas.
Cannada, from Franklin county,
Va., to a place near Floyd Court-
house [Courthouse], Va. She was the mother of
5 children. My…

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Charlie Williams is searching for his mother Sylvia Garrens

The Appeal (Chicago, IL)

February 21, 1891

SILVIA GARRENS--I wish to find my mother. I
left her in Franklin County, Va. She was the
slave of Warfield Price. Addres, Charlie Wil-
liams [Williams], Chelsea, I. T.

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Jane Bush (formerly Rachel Parsley) searching for her son George and parents Randy, and Cindia Brown

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

February 4, 1886

MR. EDITOR ---- I am anxious to hear of my child and also my parents, named George, Randy and Cindia Brown. My name was Rachel Parsley. George was six years old. I had buried a child four months old. My father, Randy, used to belong to a Mr. Southerin, and then to a Mr. Bill Brown. We all lived in Franklin county, Virginia. My sister, Mary…

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Daniel Oakes searching for his parents Abraham and June and several siblings

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

March 15, 1877

INFORMATION WANTED.
Of my relations, my father's name was Abraham
and belonged to a man named Joab Oakes living
near Bulls Run, Va. My mother's name was
Jane and she belonged to a man named Lawes
living in Franklin Co. Va. My name is Daniel
I was taken to Missouri by one George Lawes
when about eight years old. My sisters were Ann
and…

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