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Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)

August 14, 1873

Wedding After Forty Years of
Separation.

Our town is all agog this morning
over the wedding that is to be celebrated
in a day or two between Aunt
Vina Johnson, an old colored lady of
our place, and a former husband,
from whom she has been separated
for forty years. Forty-three years
ago Aunt Vina was the slave of a Mr.
Johnson, in…

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Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)

October 17, 1867

Two brothers, colored, met in the streets of Cincinnati, last Sunday, after a separation of sixty years. Their names are Joshua and Solomon Collins. They were both formerly slaves in Fleming county, Virginia. Joshua bought his freedom in 1849, and re-moved to Cincinnati, where he has since resided. Solomon ran away from his master, then living in…

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Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)

October 30, 1873

EXCHANGES PLEASE COPY.--The un-
dersigned, formerly a slave, is anxious
to know the whereabouts of his moth-
er, who is probably living yet. "I
and my mother were the common
property of Samuel Allen, near
Union, in Breckenridge county, Ken-
tucky. When I was about nine years
old our master broke up house-
keeping, and I was given to…

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Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)

April 18, 1867

Mrs. Esther Stokes, (colored,) living in
Ripley, wants information of her son,
Commodore Nelson Perry Sidwell Stokes, who
ran away from Maysville, Ky., thirteen
years ago.

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Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)

June 17, 1869

WANTED.—Information of Squire
Ferguson, (colored,) son of Squire and
Jane Ferguson, formerly of Maiden,
W. Va., but who has not been heard
from since Lightburn's retreat,
Address Jane Ferguson, Rutland, O.

Exchanges, disposed to aid a mother
in finding her son, will please give
the above publicity.

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