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Jack Robinson (formerly Jack Boils) searching for his mother Mary Boils and siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 10, 1880

DEAR EDITOR— I wish to inquire of my people. Mother’s name wasMary Boils. Mother, sister Tena, sister Easter, and brother Simon belonged to Mrs. Nancy Boils, of Monroe county, near Choctaw Bluff, Ala. Sister Martha belonged to Mr. Ker Riley. Sister Palsia and brother George belonged to Mr. Jerry Cloud. I belonged to Miss Nancy Boils, but in the…

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Esther Austine searching for her mother Hannah McNear

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 1, 1880

DEAR EDITOR--Allow me spacein your paper to inquire for mymother, Hannah McNear. The lasttime I saw her was in South Caro-lina [South Carolina], in Cherrow, Pede river. I wasa small girl about ten years oldwhen I left her. I was brought to Mobile, Ala., by Wm. Neveal, andfrom there to Jackson county, Mississippi [Mississippi], on Dog river, by…

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Thomas Pierce searching for his brother Martin Lipcombe

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 1, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my brother, Martin Lipcombe. His mother's name is Nancy Gaines. He had two uncles, Elick and Washington Gaines; two brothers, Thomas and Alfred Gaines; and two sisters, Betsie and Martha. Since the war Thomas goes by the name of Thomas Pierce. Betsie belonged to Mrs. Walker, of Mobile, and was known as Betsie…

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James W. White searching for his mother and siblings, including his sister Betty Posqually

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 22, 1880

MR. EDITOR— I wish to inquire for my folks. I left mother in Aberdeen, Miss., when I was quite a boy. Father's name was Bob White, commonly called Free Bob. He died the first year of the war and left a girl, Jane White, my sister, with mother. Bob White, my brother, belonged to Bob Ellis, who lived about nine miles from Columbus, Miss., and was a…

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Caroline Rhodes (formerly Annie Ferrill) searching for her father Joseph, mother Milly, and siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 16, 1880

DEAR EDITOR— I wish to inquire about my relatives. I was born in Virginia, but am unable to name the county; but I remember that it was 12 miles from Daville. My master was James Ferrill and mistress Martha Ferrill. I was sold to Ferrill's brother, William Ferrill, a speculator, and was brought to Mobile at the age of 10 years. To my recollection…

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Liddy Hill (formerly Liddy Powell) searching for her parents Vinnie Birkhater and Green Sunkins

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 11, 1880

MR. EDITOR--I wish to inquire for my people. Mother's name is Vinnie Birkhater. Green Sunkins was my father. Oldest sister was Harriet Birkhater. Brother Harttord is dead. My aunt was Mary Hill and Her husband Simon Hill. Dennis Hill was my owner and he sold me to a speculator named Wm. Henderson, who sold me in Mobile to another speculator. I came…

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George Alexand Washington searching for his mother Mary Thompson

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

December 29, 1881

Information wanted of my mother. Her name was Mary Thompson. I was sold when I was ten years old. I was taken from Brookville, Noxubee county. I was sold down in Mobile, Alabama, to a man by the name of Mayor Barry. My name is George Alexand Washington, and one brother was named Scott, one named Governor. My sister was named Puss. She had a burn on…

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Sarah Armston (formerly Sarah Coleman) searching for her family, including her father Edmond and mother Hannah Coleman

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 8, 1881

DEAR EDITOR:—I wish to inquire for my father and my mother, one brother, and three sisters. My father was Edmond, mother Hannah Coleman; my brother Reuben; sisters, Ann, Clara, and Catherine. My brother, Gordon Coleman, is in Mobile, Ala. I left my father and mother in Virginia. I do not know what part, as I was very young when I was sold. My…

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William Ware (formerly William Dyzart) searching for his brother Eddie Dyzart

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 11, 1880

DEAR EDITOR- I wish to inquire for a lost brother, Eddie Dyzart, nick named Tobie Dyzart. He was born in St. Joseph, Mo., was taken to White Cloud, Mo., then to St. Louis, then to Oxford, Miss., and from there to Mobile, Ala. Since then I have not heard from him. Our mother's name was America Dyzart. Please address me at Ludlow, Scott Co., Miss. My…

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Arthur S. Glover searching for his grandmother Sarah, Mrs. Emily Kennedy, and his aunts and uncles

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

March 7, 1889

MR. EDITOR: I desire to learn something of my relations and friends. My grandmother was named Sarah; she belonged to Joe Brown, who lived in Green, Co., Ala. She had four children, two daughters and two sons, Geogiana, Susan, Andrew. Nelson and Augustus; the last named was her oldest child. She was sold in Newberne, Ala. The last we heard of them…

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Aaron Taylor searching for his mother Rhoda Taylor

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 24, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my mother, Rhoda Taylor. The last time I heard from her she was in Mobile, Ala., living on the corner of Lafayette street and Spring Hill road, at the two mile station. Had been getting letters from her quite often, but have not had one during the past nine months. Her last owner's name was John Rush. Please…

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Caroline Rodes (formerly Annie Ferrill) searching for father Joseph, mother Milly, sisters Maria and Julia, and brother Anthony

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

December 4, 1879

MR. EDITOR— I desire to inquire through your valuable paper about my relations. I was bred and born in Virginia, but am unable to name the county, for I was so young that I don't recollect it; but I remember I lived twelve miles from a town called Danville. My master was James Ferrill, and my mistress was Martha Ferrill. I was sold to his…

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William White searching for his brother George White (formerly Turner White)

Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, TN)

October 20, 1882

—William White, colored, of Lagrange,
Lee county, Ark., writes the APPEAL for
information concerning his brother, George
White, known before the war as Turner
White. He was born in Panola county,
Miss., and formerly belonged to Col. F. M.
White. His mother was living in Memphis
in 1867, when George White went to Mobile
to be…

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Mrs. Amy Frenchy (formerly Amy Morris and Amy Baxter) found her mother Feraby

The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory)

May 4, 1884

AFTER MANY DAYS,
A Former Slave Hears from
Her Old Home.
A Separation of Thirty Years
Having Elapsed.
A Scrap of History.
Years before the war of the rebellion,
Wm. Eli Baxter, a lawyer and planter,
lived in Hancock county, Georgia, not
far from the town of Sparta. He own-
ed [owned] 150 slaves, among the number, Fer-
aby [Feraby],…

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Katie Hubbard searching for her father Ben Berket (formerly Berket Doncler)

The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL)

February 23, 1900

Governor Johnston has received a
letter from a colored woman who is
pursuing an industrious search for her
old father. He is somewhere in Ala-
bama [Alabama] and his daughter has not seen
nor heard of him for over a score of
years.
Katie Hubbard, the woman in ques-
tion [question], writes that he left Jasper County
in Mississippi in…

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J. Clark is searching for their brother Anthony

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

March 13, 1884

Mr. Editor-I wish to inquiae [inquire]
for my brother who was sold to
Rafe Phillips, of Macon, Ga., in
1857 or 1858, who brought him to
Mobile, Ala. I heard that he was
sold to the owner of a line of
steamboats from Mobile to New Or-
leans, but did not learn the man's
name. My brother's name was
Anthony; we belonged to a man by
the name…

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Armistead Smith wishes to find his brother

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

March 6, 1884

DEAR EDITOR--I wish to inquire
for my brother. The last time I
saw him was in McKinley, Ala., in
1867; he went from there to Mobile
and thence to New Orleans. I have
not heard from him since. His
name is Henry Smith, but is some-
times called Henry Clay Smith. He
used to belong to Mr. Martin Smith,
in McKinley, Ala. Address me at
Bastrop,…

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Mr. Goosland [Rev. Matthew Goosland], sold in 1847, finds his sister

New National Era (Washington, DC)

April 11, 1872

Story of a Slave Family.
The following is the story of a Mr. Goos-
land [Goosland], now a resident of Oberlin:
In 1847 he was sold from his wife and chil-
dren [children] in Wytheville, Virginia, and taken to
Mobile Alabama, where, after seven years
of great economy, he purchased his freedom
for the sum of $750. Soon after gaining his…

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Martha Ward searching for her sister Rosetta McQuillin

New National Era (Washington, DC)

September 29, 1870

Information Wanted.
Martha Ward wishes information concerning
her sister, Rosetta McQuillin, who was sold
from Norfolk, Va., about thirty years ago to a
Frenchman in Mobile, Ala. She is about forty-
nine years of age, light complexion, and much
freckled. Her former master was Mr. McQuil-
lin [McQuillin], who resided on Brigg's Point.
Any…

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William Miller searching for his five brothers and sister

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 4, 1884

MR. EDITOR--I wish to inquire
for my relatives, father and mother,
five brothers and two sisters.
Father's name was Armsted Hop-
kins; mother Faanie Vinson; broth-
ers, oldest Abraham, Jim, Arm-
stead, Sam and Daniel Vinson; sis-
ters, Mary and Ann Vinson. Mother
and all the children belonged to
Andrew Vinson, and were sold in…

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Ludora Snell searching for her father, aunts, sisters, and brothers

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 11, 1885

MR. EDITOR-I desire to inquire for my father and mother's people. During slavery we belonged to Dr. Harvey, near a town called Canton, but whether it was Canton, Mississippi, or not I do not know. I was very young when we were sold during the war. Mother, grandmother, myself and two other children were sold to a Mr. James Pickens and carried to…

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Arthur S. Glover searching for the brothers and sisters of his father Augustus

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

December 11, 1884

MR. EDITOR-I desire to make
inquiry about my father's relatives.
Mother was named Sarah and be-
longed [belonged] to Joe Brown, and he sold
her, but I don't know to whom, in
Newburn, Alabama. My father's
name was Augustus, belonged to
Joe Brown, the same man my grand
mother first belonged to. Her other
sons were Nelson and Andrew,…

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Arthur Randall (formerly Arthur Snowton) searching for his three sisters Hannie, Betsy, and Emma White

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

May 28, 1885

MR. EDITOR-- I wish to inquire
for my three sisters, Hannie, Betsy
and Emma White. Our parents
were named John and Susan White;
we all belonged to John Campbell,
who lived near Haynesville, Law-
rence [Lawrence] country, Alabama. My oldest
sister was in Mobile, where she had
gone with her young mistress, who
had married a Mr.…

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Arthur Holder searching for his father Sam Lawyer, three brothers, and two sisters

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October, 22, 1885

MR. EDITOR : I wish to inquire
for my people. I left them near
Lynchburg, Sumpter district, South
Carolina. My mother is dead but
she belonged to John Colde, she
was Bettie Cold; father was Sam
Lawyer or Lawra,and belonged to
James Lawra, a cripple. My broth
ers [brothers], Erus, Sam, Tim Cold; Sisters
Abigail and Vinnie Cold, the…

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Margaret Young reunited with her son Dowen Young

Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)

January 1, 1898

FINDS LONG LOST SON
DOWEN YOUNG MEETS HIS MOTHER AFTER 36 YEARS

A Mother Sold and Separated From her Family in 1861, Found and Presented to her Son as a Christmas gift in 1897.

The happiest Christmas in all the great city of Chicago was, at the modest home of Dowen Young, No. 3142 Fifth avenue. It was a reunion of a mother and son torn apart…

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