Mrs. Diana Johnson (nee Diana Hellard) searching for information about her parents and siblings
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Johnson wrote this information wanted letter to the county clerk in Buffalo, NY. Johnson, daughter of Jack and Hannah Hellard, was born in Rowan County, NC. She was sold away from her mother in 1840 and brought to Alabama, and from there to Texas, in 1841.
Mrs. Diana Johnson placed a similar information wanted ad in The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA). See The Christian Recorder, February 17, 1898. She also placed two similar ads in The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA), on July 15, 1885 and on September 3, 1885.
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January 16, 1900
Jesse Nasta
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Mrs. Rosa Westbrooks looking for her friend Miss Lucy Wilder
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Mrs. Rosa Westbrooks looking for her friend Miss Lucy Wilder. When last heard from, Lucy was in Hillsboro, Texas
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January 13, 1900
Thomas DeGolier
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Bennie A. Smith looking for Charlie, Granderson, and Isaac Whitfield
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Bennie A. Smith, who married Hattie Smith (formerly Hattie Whitfield) is searching for Hattie's brothers Charlie, Granderson, and Isaac Whitfield. Charlie and Granderson were last heard of in Ashton, Kansas. The men's father was named Granderson.
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January 13, 1900
Thomas DeGolier
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Rachael Sharp is looking for her siblings
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Rachael Sharp looking for her sister Melvina and her brothers, Sam and John, who were last seen in Virginia, where they were enslaved by Susie Sharp.
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January 13, 1900
Thomas DeGolier
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Mahalia Johnson is searching for her mother Betsey Ann Taylor
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Mahalia Johnson is searching for her mother Betsey Ann Taylor. Mahalia is a resident of Waxahachie, Texas.
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January 13, 1900
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Mrs. Paralee Hammonds is looking for Turner Hammonds
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Mrs. Paralee Hammond is searching for her son Turner Hammond. When last heard of he was in Itasca, Texas
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January 13, 1900
Thomas DeGolier
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Green Morgan and Prudence Croan reunited and remarried after 30-year separation
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Green Morgan and Prudence Croan remarried in Versailles, Kentucky in 1889. They had been separated there in 1858, when Prudence was sold and taken to a Louisiana plantation by her former enslaver. Both Green and Prudence had remarried after their separation, but were widowed.
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February 6, 1889
Jesse Nasta
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Manuel Rose searching for Victoria Chambers
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Manuel Rose seeking Victoria Chambers. Chambers was last heard of in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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November 9, 1899
Jesse Nasta
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Geo. E. Lemon searching for Sam Spoons Blakely
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Sam Spoons or Sam Spoons Blakely was the son of John Spoons/John Spoons Blakely, private of Co. B., 15th U.S.C.T.[Ad is presumably related to a Civil War pension application].
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November 17, 1892
Jesse Nasta
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Charles Ross searching for soldiers he knew at Andersonville Prison during the Civil War
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Ross, a veteran of Co. H, 35th U.S. Colored Troops, searching for paroled Union prisoners who swam with him at Andersonville Prison, and others.
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December 8, 1892
Jesse Nasta
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Eliza Montgomery searching for her brother Dick Bush
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Dick "was the slave of Edward Bush, a negro trader, who was our father." Montgomery was sold in or near Nashville, Tennessee, when a child, and taken to Missouri. Her brother was sold to someone in Texas.
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March 1892 [published in a monthly newspaper]
Jesse Nasta
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E. H. Lampkins searching for his former wife Mrs. Bennie Jacko (formerly Mrs. Bennie Lampkins)
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E. H. Lampkins is searching for Mrs. Bennie Jacko (formerly Mrs. Bennie Lampkins). Her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Johnson, lived in San Marcos, Texas. Bennie was formerly married to E. H. Lampkins, but remarried a man with the last name Jacko. She was a member of the A.M.E. Church. Her family has not been able to contact her for 12 years.
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June 27, 1913
Jesse Nasta
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Myrtle Royal Virginia Lester is searching for her grandparents
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Six year old Myrtle Royal Virginia Lester is searching for her grandparents. Her father's name was Lee Royal Lester. Her father had two brothers Jack and John Lester, and three sisters Mollie, Mattie, and Lizzer Lester. Myrtle's grandparents are thought to be living in or near Richmond, Virginia.
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March 2, 1901
Jesse Nasta
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Mrs. Mary A. Riker searching for her son Joseph A. Riker
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Her son served in Company B, 5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry, Civil War. He settled in Kansas in 1866. Riker needs information to prove her claim for a dependent mother's Civil War pension.
The National Tribune (Washington, DC), February 5, 1885, page 6, <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016187/1885-02-05/ed-1/seq-6/#date1=1789&index=17&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Mary+Riker&proxdistance=5&date2=1963&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=mary+a+riker&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1>
"WANTED-By Mary A. Riker, Hastings, Westchester Co., N.Y.-The year of the death of Jos. A. Riker, 5th Mass. (colored) Cav., who settled in Kansas, 1866."
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December 3, 1885
Jesse Nasta
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John Caesar Barber searching for his mother Mrs. John Jackson
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John Caesar Barber searching for his mother Mrs. John Jackson. Barber went to Texas in 1866, leaving his mother in New Orleans, Louisiana. His mother had married John Jackson in 1864. Barber and his mother once lived in St. Martinsville, Louisiana.
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May 23, 1891
Jesse Nasta
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Amanda Fields search for her father Jordan Mias
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Amanda Fields looking for her father Jordan Mias. They were separated in Nashville, Tennessee, but Mias is now thought to be living in Burkesville, Kentucky.
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March 14, 1889
Erik Mickiewicz
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B. T. Davis searching for their aunt Flora Hillard
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B. T. Davis searching for their aunt Flora Hillard. In 1861, during her former enslavement, she was sold to a man named Pinch who took her to Texas. Davis has not heard from her since then.
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February 14, 1889
Erik Mickiewicz
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Mrs. Lina Williams searching for her daughter Mrs. Victory Williams
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Mrs. Lina Williams searching for her daughter Mrs. Victory Williams. The last she heard of her daughter she was living in Regin, Texas which probably refers to the town of Reagan, Texas.
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May 3, 1919
Jesse Nasta
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Tom Carnahan, the only black police officer in Lincoln, NE, finds his brother after two decades
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Tom Carnahan reuniting with his brother, Silas, for the first time since the Civil War. They were enslaved in Arkansas before being separated by the war.
The Lincoln, NE Star Journal, 27 Oct 1886, 2, newspapers.com:
"Tom Carnahan, of the Lincoln Police force, met his brother Silas, Monday evening after a seperation [sic] of thirty years. At the time of seperation [sic] both were slaves on an Arkansas river plantation."
1900 U.S. federal census, Lincoln, NE: enumerates Thomas Carnahan as a black police officer, born in Arkansas, in July 1846. Parents both born in Kentucky.
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November 4, 1886
Jesse Nasta
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Henry Anderson searching for mother Peggy, brothers Chas, Horace, and Alex, and sisters Sarah Ann and Malinda
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Henry Anderson searching for mother Peggy, brothers Chas, Horace, and Alex, and sisters Sarah Ann and Malinda. Anderson was sold away from Somerset County, Maryland, about six years before the Civil War.
Henry Anderson and his brother Sandy placed a similar ad in the Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA) in January, 1896. That ad can be found here: https://informationwanted.org/items/show/2175
Henry later reported having found his relatives in this ad placed in The Freedman (Indianapolis, IN) on April 23, 1896. This ad can be found here: https://informationwanted.org/items/show/id/3099
Sandy Anderson, brother of Henry Anderson, was an agent for both The Richmond Planet and The Indianapolis Freeman, in Mineola, Texas.
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December 7, 1895
Jesse Nasta
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Rev. Mack Henson finds his father
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Rev. Henson, of Austin, Texas, finds his father after a decades-long search. His father traveled from Alabama to Austin to see him but died within two days.
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March 26, 1891
Jesse Nasta
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Wesley Torry reunited with his wife after 21 years
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The wife of Wesley Torry, of San Antonio, Texas, was sold away from him before the Civil War. They found each other 21 years later, in 1882.
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June 28, 1882
Jesse Nasta
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Martha Cobble finds her sons Thurston Cobble and Ned Cobble after a 40-year search
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Cobble found her sons, Thurston Cobble and Ned Cobble. who were sold to a New Orleans slave trader in Richmond, VA, in 1849. They were sold to fund their former enslaver's trip to gold rush California.
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August 16, 1889
Jesse Nasta
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Joe Skinner searching for Edward Hayne
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Joe Skinner of Clarksdale, Texas, searching for Edward Hayne. Hayne used to live in Jackson, Mississippi. Skinner is offering a $2.50 reward for information about Hayne.
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November 11, 1910
Jesse Nasta
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Frances Whipple searching for George Saddler
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Last seen in Waco, TX, in 1866, by his sister-in-law, Phyliss Pettigrew
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March 31, 1922
Jesse Nasta
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