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Dollie Ingram searching for her mother Margaret Ingram

Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR)

November 11, 1871

The Des Arc Citizen, of the 7th, con-
tains [contains] the following items:
Dollie Ingram, colored, who was taken
from Devalls Bluff to Missouri when
quite small, desires to know the where-
abouts [whereabouts] of Margaret Ingram, her mother,
who formerly belonged to Henry Ingram.
Any information in regard to her,
whether dead or…

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Mr. Harrison Reed searching for his mother Mary Wilson/Mary Hogan

Arkansas Weekly Mansion (Little Rock, AR)

February 16, 1884

INQUIRY.
Wanted to know the where-
abouts [whereabouts] of my mother who used to
belong to the one Mr. Wilson who
lived at Fort Scott, Kansas, she
went by the name of Mary Wil-
son [Wilson] or Mary Hogan. Her chil-
drens [childrens] names were Jack, Thomas,
Bob, Susan, Ben, Emma, and
Anna. Inquire for a woman that
has the child by…

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George G. Jameson looking for fellow service members

National Tribune (Washington, DC)

August 29, 1889

—George G. Jameson, Ætna, Kan.,
would like to know the whereabouts of any mem-
ber [member] of the 9th Kan. (colored) who was detailed to
carry the mail from Fort Smith to Fayetteville,
Ark., in June, 1864.—

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Mr. George Noels searching for his sister Martha Noels

Huntsville Journal (Huntsville, AL)

January 7, 1908

WANTS TO FIND SISTER.
Mr. George Noels wants to find his
sister, Martha Noels. They parted
over forty years ago at Pine Bluff,
Ark. She went to Tuscumbia, Ala.,
He lives at Fithugh, Ark.

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G.W. Kinebrew searching for his wife Angie Downaldson

Huntsville Journal (Huntsville, AL)

December 14, 1905

WANTED--Information concerning
my wife whom I married March 3, 1898
Her maiden name was Angie Downaldson
and her mothers name Eliza and
her sister Jennie. I married her in
Madison county Any information will
be appreciated by her husband G. W.
Kinebrew, Rawlison, Ark., or W. H.
Kinebrew, Scottsboro, Alabama.

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Lucy Smith is searching for her father William Smith

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

July 30, 1898

Do You Know Him?

I would like to know the whereabouts
of my father, William Smith. He was
at Fort Smith, Ark., up to last April.
When last heard from, April 18, 1898.
he was at Seward Station, Oklahoma,
employed by Mr. David Scronce.

Any information will be gladly received
by his daughter, Lucy Smith,
316 N. 16th St., Richmond,…

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Eli Newsom searching for Jim Smith

The National Tribune (Washington, DC)

October 26, 1905

ADDRESSES WANTED.
WANTED—Address of Jim Smith, body servant
of Andrew Smith, Second Lieutenant, Co. H, 3d
Ark.; afterwards 56th U. S. C. T. "Important." Ad-
dress Eli Newsom, Soldiers' Home, Los Angeles, Cal.

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Manuel Rose searching for Victoria Chambers

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, TX)

November 9, 1899

ANYONE knowing anything relative to or
the whereabouts of Victoria Chambers (col-
ored) will oblige by writing Manuel Rose,
Willard, Texas. She was last heard of in
Little Rock, Ark. 10

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Easter Bradford searching for Alcinda Bradford

Public Opinion (Chambersburg, PA)

August 23, 1870

Information is wanted of the whereabouts of Alcinda Bradford, daughter of Jacob and Susan Bradford. She was sold as a slave some years before the war, at New Orleans, to a man by the name of Lindsay, and was afterwards taken to Arkansas. Any information of the above person addressed to Easter Bradford, Chambersburg, Pa., will be thankfully…

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Jeff Frierson and Mary Burt reunited and remarried after 44-year separation

The Nashville American (Nashville, TN)

September 25, 1903

AFTER FORTY-FOUR YEARS

Jeff Frierson and Mary Burt Are Reunited
in Marriage.

Special Dispatch to The American.

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 24. --
A somewhat romantic marriage occurred
in colored circles last night. The
facts about it are these: Before the
Civil War, and in slave times, Jeff
Frierson, a slave belonging to the…

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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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William White searching for his brother George White (formerly Turner White)

Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, TN)

October 20, 1882

—William White, colored, of Lagrange,
Lee county, Ark., writes the APPEAL for
information concerning his brother, George
White, known before the war as Turner
White. He was born in Panola county,
Miss., and formerly belonged to Col. F. M.
White. His mother was living in Memphis
in 1867, when George White went to Mobile
to be…

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Virginia Foster searching for George W. Davis

The New York Age (New York, NY)

July 20, 1905

INFORMATION WANTED.
Information is wanted relative to the
present address of George W. Davis, in Lit-
tle [Little] Rock, Ark. Address Virginia Foster, 220
East 70th street, New York city.

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