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Vina Johnson reunited with her husband George Perry after 43 years
The 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 cele-
brated [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.…
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Green Morgan and Prudence Croan reunited and remarried after 30-year separation
The Examiner (San Francisco, CA)
February 6, 1889
OLD, BUT STILL LOVING.
Remated After a Separation of Thirty
Years.
CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS.
Uncle Green and Aunt Prudence Go Down to the
Grave Together After All.
[Special to the EXAMINER.]
VERSAILLES (Ky.), February 5. -- A marriage
ceremony in the colored Methodist Church
here to-day developed in an ante-bellum ro-
mance [romance] of…
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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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James Dogan found his first wife and his family
Reading Times and Dispatch (Reading, PA)
July 26, 1871
POTTSTOWN has an Enoch Arden in the
shape of a colored man named James Dogan,
who was a slave prior to the rebellion, and,
escaping into the Union lines, afterwards be-
came [became] a soldier and fought all through the
war. He became separated from his family,
and not hearing from them for several years,
subsequently married again.…
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W. H. Milligan providing address to those inquiring
Iowa State Bystander (Des Moines, IA)
August 4-18, 1905
NOTICE.
To those who have made inquiry in
regards to the address of W. H. Mil-
ligan [Milligan], G. M. of Grand Lodge of Iowa
and Jurisdiction, we would state that
a letter addressed, R. F. D. No. 2,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will reach him.
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Milton Douglas reuniting with his wife
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
September 7, 1882
We find this paragraph in the Charleston Advocate: Milton Douglas, an Edgefield (S. O.) negro, was married while a slave in 1859 to a colored girl in that county. After three months of wedded life he was sold and sent West. His wife married again, her second husband dying a few months ago. Milton, who had not been heard from since 1859 returned…
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Mrs. Ellen Craft finds her mother
National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)
August 12, 1865
ELLEN CRAFT AND HER MOTHER NEW YORK, July 31, 1865. To the Editor of the Standard: THE following autograph letter from Maj.-Gen. Wilson was elicited by an enquiry in behalf of Ellen Craft, now resident in England, for her mother, one of the redeemed from out of the house of bondage. The good will and courtesy of the General need no commendation…
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Mr. Ambrose reunited with his family
National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)
October 12, 1865
A FAMILY REUNION. HOW AN ESCAPED SLAVE BECAME WEALTHY AND DISCOVERED HIS RELATIVES. A Chicago paper tells the story of the return to the South of an escaped slave, who had amassed wealth in the North, and recently started on a journey to discover his relatives, whom he found in Louisiana. The story is as follows: "A few years ago, a runaway…
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Mrs. D. Thornell reunited with her father William Moss
Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)
May 9, 1891
The Lost Found.Mr. and Mrs. D. Thornell of Brad-ford [Bradford], Pa. are in the city on a visit to her father, William Moss, of this city. It seems that Mrs. Thornell has been awayfor 20 years. Recently she had an en-quiring [enquiring] notice inserted in the PLANET, inorder to find her father. He saw it and wrote to her. The result is that she,…
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Mrs. Josephine Bass found her relatives
Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)
February 4, 1893
Relatives Found.Mrs. Josephine Bass of Memphis, Tenn. in the PLaNET of the 21st, advertised for relatives whom she had not seen for thirty-one years.She has found them. They called at this office this week and proceeded at once to correspond to her. Only two are now alive.A gentleman in Washington found his long lost sister in the same manner. He…
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Unnamed father and son reunited
National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)
August 9, 1862
A Strange Incident.—Six years ago, a young black man in Maryland, tired of being a slave, took advantage of a propitious night, and ran away to Canada. On sending back an occasional message to his aged father, who remained behind in bonds, he found means, for some time, of procuring answers, until at length no more answers came. Then for five…
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Julia Lyons reunites with sister Emeline Skipworth
Battle Creek Daily Moon (Battle Creek, MI)
November 18, 1885
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