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Mary Brown searching for her sisters Sallie, Elizabeth, and Louisa

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

December 11, 1884

MR. EDITOR-- I desire to inquire through the SOUTHWESTERN for my kin people. In the days when human beings were bought and sold in this chivalrous South my body belonged to Col. T. G. Johnson, of Memphis, Tenn. He kept a hotel and a number of race horses. My body was sold in New Orleans to a Mr. Absalom Gill, in 1843. I then went by the name of…

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Charles Moore searching for his brother Handy Harper (formerly Handy Moore)

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 13, 1889

DEAR EDITOR: I want to inquire for my brother, Handy Moore. We were three brothers: George, Handy and Charley. I am the oldest one. We all belonged to Wright Moore before the war. Handy changed his name after his father's, who was a Harper. Our mother is named Annie. She is living with me. The last time I heard from George he was in Vicksburg,…

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