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Robert Nowland looking for his family

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

June 21, 1893

Do You Know Them?DANVILLE, Va, June 13, '93.I am inquiring for my people who went out to Texas a good many years. Prairie Plains, Grimes Co., Texas, and I cannot hear from them. My father's name is Harrison Now-lan [Nowlan]. my mother's name is Elvira Nowland. I have also three broth-ers [brothers], Coleman, Winfree, and Gran-ville [Granville],…

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Miss Mattie Gooseby searching for her mother Mollie Gravely

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

March 16, 1901

Do You Know Her?
I desire to find my mother. The last
time I saw her was five years ago. She
was then in Greensboro. N. C. Her
first husband's name was Ned Goosby,
last husband's name, Green Gravelly.
She goes by the name of Mo[undecipherable]lie
Gravely. She had four children, viz.
Mattie, Johnnie, Mary and Rosa Goos-
by [Goosby],…

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Elizabeth Jones searching for her people

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

March 20, 1897

Do You Know Them? I would like to find the where abouts of my people whom I left in the state of Virginia some 40 or 50 years ago and send me your price. My son put a notice in your paper sometime ago about his father's people and has found them, Mr. Mark Messer. I belonged to a man named Jack Thrift I don't know how far it was from Petersburg, but…

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Mark Messer searching for his father Americus Valentine and his family

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

January 30, 1897

Do You Know Them?

I desire to know the whereabouts of
my father's people. He was born in
Currytuck County, N C and was sold
in Richmond at Lumpkins Jail forty
or fifty years ago.
His father's name was Americus
Valentine and my mother's name was
Barbara and they belonged to Brancen
Bell and lived at a place called Bull
Yard.
My…

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Margret Jones searching for her brother Bill Jones

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

August 20, 1874

INFORMATION WANTED.
A lost Brother. He left Mrs. Agess
Jones the year of emancipation three
miles from Pittsylvania Court House Va.
He formerly went by the name of
Bill Jones; his parent went by the
name of Augusta, and Sarah Jones,
and his brothers and sisters, names were
Nat, and Henry Jones, and his sisters
were named Margret…

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