Jose Brown (formerly known as Beary Brown) searching for his brother Peter and sister Ann Washington

The Enterprise (Omaha, NE)

March 20, 1897

Sperrial Peyton Brooks searching for his mother and fifteen brothers and sisters

Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, NE)

December 8, 1911

Colored Man Seeks Relatives—Sper-
rial [Sperrial] Peyton Brooks, an aged colored man
is seeking information as to the where-
abouts [whereabouts] of his mother and relatives, who
he last heard from in Poppleton, W. Va.
He says that when a lad his mother gave
him away to a neighbor to raise, and
then she moved away. He says that he
has…

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…

Diana Johnson searching for lost relatives

Fremont Semi-Weekly Herald (Fremont, NE)

January 19, 1900