Story of a Slave Family.
The following is the story of a Mr. Goos-
land [Goosland], now a resident of Oberlin:
In 1847 he was sold from his wife and chil-
dren [children] in Wytheville, Virginia, and taken to
Mobile Alabama, where, after seven years
of great economy, he purchased his freedom
for the sum of $750. Soon after gaining his…
LOUIS VITCHARD––I desire to learn to learn the where-
abouts [whereabouts] of my brother Louis Vitchard from whom
I was separated at Cloutierville, La., thirty-three
years ago. Address Mrs. Florence Haynes. Ober
lin [Oberlin], Ohio.
Information wanted of George Myers and
Mary Myers, who are my father and mother,
and George Myers, Jr., Miles Myers and
Jane Myers, my brothers and sister, former-
ly of Charleston, Mo. They left Missouri
in the fall of 1861, and came to Columbus,
Ky., where they remained a short time, and
from there they came to Cincinnati, Ohio,
and…