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Reuben Thornton searching for his sister Amy Thornton and brother Ransom Thornton

Spirit of Jefferson (Charles Town, WV)

April 27, 1869

INFORMATION WANTED,
CONCERNING the residence or whereabouts of
AMY THORNTON and RANSOM THORN-
TON [THORNTON], by their brother, Reuben Thornton. Amy
went to the neighborhood of Frederick City, Md.,
Ransom to Madison county, Va. Any person know-
ing [knowing] their residence will please communicate with
Jno. M. Coyle, Charlestown, W.…

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Mrs. Anna Mollie Wright reunited with her daughter Mrs. Anna Freeman after 29 years

The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, WV)

April 11, 1892

AFTER TWENTY-NINE YEARS
A Mother and Daughter are Reunited.
The Daughter a Clarksburg Woman who
Was Sold During Slavery Days.
Special Dispatch to the Intelligencer.
FINDLAY, O., April 10.-A remarkable
reunion of mother and daughter who
had been cruelly torn from each other
at the slave block in 1863 has just taken
place in this city.…

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Charles D. Weaver searching for his father Charles Henry Weaver

Spirit of Jefferson (Charles Town, WV)

August 19, 1873

WANTS TO FIND HIS FATHER.-Charls
D. Weaver, a colored boy, who is now in very
ill-health, of this town, desires to know of
the whereabouts of his father, Charles Henry
Weaver, who formerly belonged to a Mr. Me-
Quinn, of Rappahannock county, and who
left this county about the second year of the
war, then living with Mr. Harrison…

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