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Washington Ellerson searching for his mother Lucinda Lumpkins

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 7, 1882

MR. EDITOR: I desire to inquire through your paper for my long lost mother. We were sold in New Orleans on the same day. I was sold to a man by the name of Dr. Mitchell, who lived in Mississippi. I can not remember the man's name that mother was sold to. However, I was taken by my new master up the river, and mother was taken down the river by…

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Moses Weatherly searching for his father

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 8, 1885

MR. EDITOR-- I wish to inquire for my father: He went to Memphis in 1862; the last time I heard from him he was in Louisiana. I was quite a boy when he left. Mrs. Eva Malone told me she saw him in Louisiana in January 1870; he sent sister a ring by Mrs. Malone I hoped he would have written to us before now. His wife is named Patsy; he had three…

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Darthulia Minor searching for her daughter Edna Jerrett

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 8, 1879

DEAR EDITOR—I have a lost daughter named Edna Jerrett. She went away with Dr. J. Robinson the last year of the war. When last heard from she was in Browns- ville [Brownsville], Jackson county, Ala. Her father's name is Jerry Chalmers. When she went off I belonged to the same family of Jerretts. I went off with Dr. Jerome Summerfield Jerrett. He…

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