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- Newspaper: The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)
Vina Johnson reunited with her husband George Perry after 43 years
The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)
August 14, 1873
Wedding After Forty Years of
Separation.
Our town is all agog this morning
over the wedding that is to be cele-
brated [celebrated] in a day or two between Aunt
Vina Johnson, an old colored lady of
our place, and a former husband,
from whom she has been separated
for forty years. Forty-three years
ago Aunt Vina was the slave of a Mr.…
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Brothers Joshua Collins and Solomon Collins meet in Cincinnati after decades-long separation
The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)
October 17, 1867
Two brothers, colored, met in the streets of Cincinnati, last Sunday, after a separation of sixty years. Their names are Joshua and Solomon Collins. They were both formerly slaves in Fleming county, Virginia. Joshua bought his freedom in 1849, and re-moved to Cincinnati, where he has since resided. Solomon ran away from his master, then living in…
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W.H.H. Allen (formerly named General William Henry Harrison) searching for his mother
Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)
October 30, 1873
EXCHANGES PLEASE COPY.--The un-
dersigned [undersigned], formerly a slave, is anxious
to know the whereabouts of his moth-
er [mother], who is probably living yet. "I
and my mother were the common
property of Samuel Allen, near
Union, in Breckenridge county, Ken-
tucky [Kentucky]. When I was about nine years
old our master broke up…
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Mrs. Esther Stokes searching for her son Commodore Nelson Perry Sidwell Stokes
Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)
April 18, 1867
Mrs. Esther Stokes, (colored,) living in
Ripley, wants information of her son,
Commodore Nelson Perry Sidwell Stokes, who
ran away from Maysville, Ky., thirteen
years ago.
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Jane Ferguson searching for her son Squire Ferguson
Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)
June 17, 1869
WANTED.—Information of Squire
Ferguson, (colored,) son of Squire and
Jane Ferguson, formerly of Maiden,
W. Va., but who has not been heard
from since Lightburn's retreat,
Address Jane Ferguson, Rutland, O.
Exchanges, disposed to aid a mother
in finding her son, will please give
the above publicity.
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John Shackelford looking for his mother Caroline and seven siblings
The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)
November 28, 1867
INFORMATION WANTED.
John Shackelford, a freedman, now
living at Murfreesboro, Tenn. wishes
to learn something of his mother,
brother, and six sisters, who were
formerly slaves of Col. George Shackelford,
of Amherst County, Va., about
3 miles from Lynchburg. He has
heard nothing from them since 1846,
when…
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Washington Waller searching for his father Washington Waller Sr.
The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)
May 5, 1864
Information Wanted,
Of Washington Waller, senior, by
his son, Washington Waller, who was
formerly a slave, belonging to Dr.
Wins, of Orange county, Va. He is
now with the Army of the Potomac,
and wishes his father, who was somewhere
in Ohio when last heard from, to write
to him, in care of Major J. C. Duane,
of the Engineer…
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