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Martha Bills searching for her brothers Rufus and Lewis Glaze
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
November 22, 1888
MR. EDITOR:—I wish to inquire about my people. My mother was Charlotte Glaze. My name is Benny Glaze; her and I were sold to a Christian preacher named James Collinsworth. He carried us to Morgan Co , Ala., and thence to Middle, Tenn. My two brothers are named Rufus Glaze and Lewis Glaze. Our father went by the name of O'Neal. My sister's name is…
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Moses Littlejohn looking for sisters Mag Littlejohn and Amanda
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
July 7, 1881
DEAR EDITOR:—Some of my relatives were sold from mother and I about eight years before the war about 14 miles east of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Had only two sisters, the oldest was Mag Littlejohn, the other Amanda, mother Milly Littlejohn. They were sold by Billy Littlejohn from the block to speculators, and carried to Spartanburg Court House…
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Rufus Rollings searching for his mother Letty and his siblings
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
April 15, 1880
DEAR EDITOR-- I was the last one sold out of nine in 1860. My mother and eight children were sold in Clarksville, Tenn., to Clark Cummings, a speculator. Mother was sold to Thomas Hughes, near Clarksville. The youngest one, Eveline, is dead. The next, Major, was sold the same day I was. I can't tell where he was taken to. I heard he went to…
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Julian Jones searching for his sister Harriet
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 19, 1884
MR. EDITOR-- I wish to inquire for a sister of mine who in slave times belonged to Izer Wells. He carried her away from here about 1854, supposed to have taken her to Louisiana, and I heard that since 1865 she was living in New Orleans. Her name was Harriet and my name was Julian McDaniel then but it is changed to Julian Jones. We have one more…
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Henry Smith (formerly Henry Watts) seeking his brothers William and Sephus
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
February 26, 1880
DEAR EDITOR --- I desire information
of my brothers. I have heard
from two and two I have not heard
from. William and Sephus belonged
to Tilly Watts, in Lunengburg
county, Virginia, in 1842. I left
them there. Brother Jesse said
Sephus had moved from Virginia,
but he did not know where, and he
had not heard from William for…
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