DEAR EDITOR: I desire to inquire for my mother—Harriet Wood, who left me in Crockett, Texas, in 1861. Her name at first was Harriet Terry. She used to be hired by Mr. Thomas Croditt, in Crockett. She was the mother of four children—three girls and one boy named as follows: Francis, Mittie, Maria, and Matt. Terry. My father was Ned Calvin, but he…
MR. EDITOR - I wish to inquire,
through your valuable paper, for
my relatives, viz: Mother, sister
and brother. My mother belonged
to Betsy Anderson, who married a
man by the name of Minor Smith.
I left her about thirty years ago
for Texas. My sister's name was
Martha Jane, she belonged to the
widow Jennings who, I heard,…