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Mrs. Diana Johnson (nee Diana Hellard) searching for information about her parents and siblings

Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY)

January 16, 1900

SLAVERY DAYS.

Texas Woman Tells a Story of the
Breaking Up of Her Family--Letter
to County Clerk Wende.

County Clerk Otto H. Wende this morning
received the following letter, which vividly
recalls the days of slavery:

January 13, 1900.

I desire to find my people. I was born in
North Carolina, Roman County, five miles
from…

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Mrs. Rosa Westbrooks looking for her friend Miss Lucy Wilder

The Dallas Express (Dallas, TX)

January 13, 1900

MISS LUCY WILDER MISSING. Mrs. Rosa Westbrooks wishes to know the whereabouts of her friend, Miss Lucy Wilder. When last heard of she (Miss Wilder) was in Hillsboro, Texas. Any one knowing of her will please address MRS. ROSA WESTBROOKS, Colorado, Texas.

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Bennie A. Smith looking for Charlie, Granderson, and Isaac Whitfield

The Dallas Express (Dallas, TX)

January 13, 1900

THREE MEN WANTED.
Want to know the whereabouts of
Charlie, Granderson and Issac Whit-
field [Whitfield]. Their father's name was Gran-
derson [Granderson]. He moved from home,
Marshall, Texas, to Guthrie or Langs-
ton [Langston], Oklahoma, about ten years ago.
Charlie and Granderson were heard
of in Ashton, Kas., when their sister,…

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Rachael Sharp is looking for her siblings

The Dallas Express (Dallas, TX)

January 13, 1900

LOST RELATIVES.

I want to find my sister Melvina,
daughter of Charles Gordon, who lived
near Richmond, VA., at a little place
called Chicot. I also had two brothers
by name, Sam and John, all of them
belonged to a Mrs. Susie Sharp, of that
place. Any information leading to
the whereabouts of either or all of
them will be…

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Mahalia Johnson is searching for her mother Betsey Ann Taylor

The Dallas Express (Dallas, TX)

January 13, 1900

LOST MOTHER.
Would like to know the whereabouts
of my mother whose name is Betsey
Ann Taylor. Address
Mahalia, Johnson,
Waxahachie, Texas.

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Mrs. Paralee Hammonds is looking for Turner Hammonds

The Dallas Express (Dallas, TX)

January 13, 1900

TURNER HAMMONDS LOST. Mrs. Paralee Hammonds wishes to know the whereabouts of her son, Turner hammonds. When last heard of he was in Itaska, Texas. Any information concerning him may be directed to MRS. PARALEE HAMMONDS, Colorado, Texas.

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Green Morgan and Prudence Croan reunited and remarried after 30-year separation

The Examiner (San Francisco, CA)

February 6, 1889

OLD, BUT STILL LOVING.
Remated After a Separation of Thirty
Years.
CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS.
Uncle Green and Aunt Prudence Go Down to the
Grave Together After All.
[Special to the EXAMINER.]
VERSAILLES (Ky.), February 5. -- A marriage
ceremony in the colored Methodist Church
here to-day developed in an ante-bellum ro-
mance [romance] of…

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Manuel Rose searching for Victoria Chambers

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, TX)

November 9, 1899

ANYONE knowing anything relative to or
the whereabouts of Victoria Chambers (col-
ored) will oblige by writing Manuel Rose,
Willard, Texas. She was last heard of in
Little Rock, Ark. 10

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Geo. E. Lemon searching for Sam Spoons Blakely

National Tribune (Washington, DC)

November 17, 1892

WANTED—By Geo. E. Lemon, attorney, Wash-
ington, D. C.—The address of Sam Spoons, or
Sam Spoons Blakely, who received mail at Danville,
Tenn., and later at Kellysville, Tex.; son of John
Spoons, or John Spoons Blakely, late private Co. B,
15th U. S. C. T.

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Charles Ross searching for soldiers he knew at Andersonville Prison during the Civil War

National Tribune (Washington, DC)

December 8, 1892

Charles Ross, Co. H, 35th U. S. C. T., Bren-
ham, Texas, wants the name of the Surgeon or
Steward who assisted Dr. Warren to amputate
the arm of a rebel soldier of Co. G. 4th Ga. Re-
serve Guards, at Andersonville, Ga., in the
latter part of the Summer of 1864. Also the
addresses of the two paroled Union prison-
ers who attended in the…

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Eliza Montgomery searching for her brother Dick Bush

Baptist Times (Garnett, KS)

March 1892 [published in a monthly newspaper]

Lost.

I wish to find my brother, Dick
Bush. who was born in Tennessee,
and wae the slave of Edward Bush, a
negro trader, who was our father.
My mother, Fannie Bush, was sold to
Thompson, a negro trader, who sold
her and left us two very small children
alone. I was then sold, in or near
Nashville, Tenn. to a Mr. Holiway
who…

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E. H. Lampkins searching for his former wife Mrs. Bennie Jacko (formerly Mrs. Bennie Lampkins)

The Nashville Globe (Nashville, TN)

June 27, 1913

LETTER OF INQUIRY.
22 Nevada street, San Antonio, Tex.,
June 9, 1913.
Nashville Globe, Nashville, Tenn.:
I am sending this inquiring letter
to you in quest of Mrs. Bennie Jacko
or Mrs. Bennie Lampkins. She was
once married to me, but the last
time she married a man by the name
of Jacko; her mother's name was Mrs.
Charlotte Johnson, who…

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Myrtle Royal Virginia Lester is searching for her grandparents

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

March 2, 1901

Wants to Know.
Little six year old Myrtle Royal Vir-
ginia [Virginia] Lester wants to learn where to
find her grand parents who are sup-
posed [supposed] to reside in or near Richmond,
Va. Her father's name was Lee Royal
Lester. He had two brothers named
Jack and John Lester and 3 sisters,
Mollie, Mattie and Lizzer Lester.
Little…

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Mrs. Mary A. Riker searching for her son Joseph A. Riker

Fort Scott Weekly Monitor (Fort Scott, KS)

December 3, 1885

Information Wanted.

Joseph A. Riker, colored, son of Peter and Mary A. Riker, of this place, served in Harris Light Infantry in 1862 and 1863, and Co. B, Fifth regiment Massachusetts colored cavalry from January 6, 1864, to October 31, 1865. He served in the army of the Potomac until after the surrender of Lee, when his regiment was ordered to…

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John Caesar Barber searching for his mother Mrs. John Jackson

Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)

May 23, 1891

MRS. JOHN JACKSON—I wish to find my mother
Mrs. John Jackson. I came to Texas in 1866, leav-
ing [leaving] my mother in New Orleans. My mother was
married in 1864 to John Jackson. Her master's
name was Nicholas Coleman a captain in the rebel
army. We at one time lived in St. Martinsville,
La. Address, John Caesar Barber, Waxahachie,…

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Amanda Fields search for her father Jordan Mias

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

March 14, 1889

INFORMATION WANTED CONCERNING
my father, Joseph Mias He used to live in
Gainesborough, Tenn., and then he left
there for Nashville, Tenn., where we left
him; but since then heard that he moved to
Birksville, Ky. He is an old experienced
blacksmith. He had four of us children:
Rosetta, Amanda, Hannah and Joseph.
We were brought from…

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B. T. Davis searching for their aunt Flora Hillard

Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

February 14, 1889

INFORMATION WANTED. INFORMATION WANTED OF MY AUNT, Flora Hillard. She was sold in 1861 from Louisiana to a man by the name of Pinch who went to Texas and took her with him I have not heard from her since. She first belonged to a man by the name of W W Collins. Any information will be gladly received. Please address, B. T. Davis, Mine La Motte…

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Mrs. Lina Williams searching for her daughter Mrs. Victory Williams

Dallas Express (Dallas, TX)

May 3, 1919

Want to Know—of the whereabouts
of my daughter, Mrs. Victory Wil-
liams [Williams], last heard of she was in Regin,
Texas, any information concerning
her will be highly appreciated, ad-
dress [address] Mrs. Lina Williams, 117 West
First street, St. Angelo, Texas.
5-3-1t

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Tom Carnahan, the only black police officer in Lincoln, NE, finds his brother after two decades

The McCook Tribune (McCook, NE)

November 4, 1886

TOM CARNAHAN, the colored member of the Lincoln police force, has been treated to a genuine surprise by the arrival of his brother from Texas, whom he has not heard from in twenty years. Before the war Tom and his brother were slave chil-dren in Arkansas and were separated by the war. Tom drifted to the north and his brother to Texas. A short…

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Henry Anderson searching for mother Peggy, brothers Chas, Horace, and Alex, and sisters Sarah Ann and Malinda

The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)

December 7, 1895

LOST RELATIVES.
I would like to find my relatives. I was born
in Somerset County, Maryland. My name is
Henry Anderson, my Master was John Ander-
son [Anderson] of Eastern Shore M. D., I left about six
years before the war. Mothers name was Peg-gy [Peggy] and my brothers were named Chas, Horace,
Alex, and Sandy I left two sisters in…

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Rev. Mack Henson finds his father

The Austin Weekly Statesman (Austin, TX)

March 26, 1891

A SAD DEATH.

After Many Years an Aged Father Meets His
Son and Soon After Dies.

A pathetic death occurred in thi
city day before yesterday that i
worthy of more than a passing notice.

Since the war Rev. Mack Henson, a
colored preacher of this city, who because
of his earnestness as a minister
and his courteous and gentlemanly…

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Wesley Torry reunited with his wife after 21 years

Public Ledger (Memphis, TN)

June 28, 1882

ROMANTIC MEETING.

An Aged Colored Couple Renew
Acquaintance After Twenty-one
Years’ Separation.

San Antonio Express, 25.

Wesley Torry, an old and well
known colored man of this city, had
the pleasure last Saturday evening of
meeting his wife, whom he had not
seen before in twenty-one years, during
slavery times. An attempt of…

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Martha Cobble finds her sons Thurston Cobble and Ned Cobble after a 40-year search

The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)

August 16, 1889

A Mother's Search.
An interesting incident has just been
brought to light in Owensboro, Ky., in
which Martha Cobble, who served a
great portion of her life in slavery in
Virginia, and who forty years ago was
separated from her children, is the he-
roine. The mother and her offspring
were owned by a planter in Richmond,
Va., and at the…

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Joe Skinner searching for Edward Hayne

The Greenville Times (Greenville, MS)

November 11, 1910

NOTICE---Any one furnishing the
correct address and whereabouts of Ed-
ward [Edward] Hayne (colored) formerly a resi-
dent [resident] of Jackson, Mississippi, will be
paid $2.50 by conveying said informa-
tion [information] to Joe Skinner, Clarksdale, Texas.
3113t.

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Frances Whipple searching for George Saddler

The Topeka Plaindealer (Topeka, KS)

March 31, 1922

LOST RELATIVE
Want to hear from George Saddler.
Last seen in Waco, Texas, in 1866
by his sister-in-law, Phyliss Petti-
grew. Please write Frances Whip-
ple, R. R. No. 4. Mt Vernon, Mo.

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