DEAR EDITOR—I am seeking the whereabouts of my Uncle Jonah Hartly. Mr. Edwin A. Glover bought him from his first owner, Capt. Hartly, and brought him to Texas. Uncle being very sickly, and unable to work, he sent him back to Alabama, Marengo Co., about one year before emancipation. He left his wife here. Her name is Mary Ann. My mother, Jonah's…
MR. EDITOR—I am seeking the whereabouts of Mother, two brothers and one sister. Mother's name is Julia Echoles; sister's Ellen; brothers' Lowen and Tom Echoles. I received a letter from her in the year 1870. She was then living in Desoto Co., near Cold Water Springs, Miss. I have not heard from her since we used to belong to Larkin Echoles. I was…
DEAR EDITOR - I wish to know
something of my wife's relations
she was born in Virginia and left
there when a child. She left there
with her brother Harry who was
the next child to her. Harry was
sold to a man in Charlestown. I do
not know who he was. My wife's
name is Rhoda. Mother's was
Molly, Father's Peter Roe, eldest
sister Sucia,…