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Annie Blackly (formerly Annie Patton) searching for her parents Samuel and Eliza Page and grandfather Abraham Bell
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
October 19, 1882
MR. EDITOR: Looking on your paper as the only hope that I have of my whereabouts ever being found out, I wish to say that I was brought from Lexington, Missouri, to Jackson, Miss., by a Dr. Patton, in the year 1861, and I left in Missouri, my mother, father, grandmother and grand-father. Mother was Eliza and father Samuel, both called by the name…
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Caroline Williams searching for her sister Francis Austin
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
February 2, 1882
MR. EDITOR ---- I wish to inquire for my sister. Her name was Francis Austin, and belonged to Mary Austin. A negro trader bought her by the name of Bess about thirty-five years ago. He sold her in Lexington, Mo.; he bought her in the same State. Her mother's name was Clara Austin. There was two more children, brother Amos and myself, Caroline…
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Caroline Holloway looking for her mother's family
The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)
May 22, 1884
INFORMATION WANTED OF MY PEOPLE.
They lived near Sparta, Tenn., and be-
longed to the Austin's. My mother's name
was Cloa Austin. She is now dead. My
mother had a brother. Peter or Harry Aus-
tin; she had a sister Violet, and one named
Celia. My grandmother's name was Fan-
nie; they all belonged to the Austins. My
mother was carried from…
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Clara Carriger looking for her daughter Minerva Cavanaugh
The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)
May 8, 1890
INFORMATION WANTED--Of my
daughter Minerva Cavanaugh. Her fa
ther's name was Thomas Cavanaugh, her
mother's name was Clara Cavanaugh. We
were all the property of Old Doctor Cava-
naugh, at Carrollton, Mo. He sold Miner-
va to a Mr. Cassner, who owned a wood
yard up the Missouri river above Carroll-
ton. Several years before the war,…
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Jenny Carter (formerly Jenny White) looking for children Cisly, Oscur, Emily Francis, and Lucy Ann White
The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)
April 27, 1867
INFORMATION WANTED.
Information wanted concerning one or all
of the following named persons to wit:
Cisly White, Oscur White, Emily Francis
White, and Lucy Anna White, children of
Jenny White, born in Boone County, Ky.--
the slaves of a man by the name of Stephens.
Mother and all the family sold to Ross, of
Georgetown, Ky., about 18…
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