DEAR EDITOR - I wish you would
inquire for my brothers and sisters
left in Canton, Miss., August, 1864.
Father was Tom Shroud, brothers
Riley, Charles, Harrison, Daniel ;
sisters, Rebecca, Eliza, Lydia,
Fanny, Isabella, Caroline, and one
who was sold with me, Tempy. We
belonged to John Elders who lived
four miles from Canton, Miss., on…