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Mrs. Anna M. Cox searching for her brother Thomas Henry Burrah

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 18, 1884

MR. EDITOR-- I wish to inquire for my brother. His parents names were Mary Ann Burrah, step-father was Foch Burrah; his name is Thomas Henry Burrah. Had two sisters, Mary Jane and Roxanna. Our master's name was Phillip Burrah. We were all raised in Carroll county, five miles from Carrollton, Georgia. My mother belonged to Pat Garrison, at…

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Jane Moultrie searching for her mother Elvay, two brothers Clark and Alfred, and a sister Harriet

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 24, 1884

MR. EDITOR-I wish to inquire for my people, mother, two brothers and one sister. We all belonged to the widow Lovejoy, and she lived in Jasper county, Georgia; and we were all sold two years before the surrender. A man by the name of Bill Parker bought my mother and the baby child, and my sister was sold to Ann Stafford, a daughter of the widow…

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George Mickle searching for his mother Matilda Burton and her husband Peter Fauars

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 16, 1885

I wish to inquire for my relatives. My mother's name was Matilda Burton; she was sold to Mina Stephen, near Newnan, Georgia, during the war. She married a man by the name of Peter Fauars. The last I heard from them, they had moved to Mississippi. Any information concerning them may be sent to George Mickle, Handley, Texas.

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