Rev. J. G. Dawson looking for his brother Robert Dawson

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

September 11, 1890

Collier Mitchell seeking their relatives including their mother and father

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 15, 1887

MR. EDITOR-I wish a letter in the SOUTHWESTERN inquiring for my relatives. Father and mother were named Sam and Charlotte Mitchell; two sisters, Hannah and Ann Mitchell; and uncles named Sam Small, Adam Small and Ned Small, and also an uncle named Nator Wright who had three sons named Junius, Job and Gabriel Wright. Sam Small is the father of…

Daniel Sanders searching for his two brothers William and Izard Sanders

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 21, 1887

MR. EDITOR-- Please allow me in your valuable columns a space to make some inquiries about my two brothers, the sons of Rayft Izard Sanders and of Rosa Sanders. The name of my two brothers are William and Izard Sanders. I left Izard in Charleston, S. C , when I was sold here in 1853, and William my oldest brother was sold somewhere in South…

Executors of estate found Robert Busby, "ex-slave," and gave him an inheritance

The Broad Ax (Chicago, IL)

October 9, 1897

AGED EX-SLAVE.

Left a Fortune of $50,000 by His
Former Master.

Benton Harbor, Mich., Sept 29.

--Robert Busby, an old ex-slave,
was today advised by a Charleston
(S. C.) lawyer that his former master,
Bradford North, who died four
years ago, has left him an inheritance
of $50,000. The old planter
left an immense estate, and…