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    • Aunt(s) identifies the person being looked for as a parent's sibling or describes someone included in a family history as such.

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Willy Woods searching for his relatives, including his sister Lizzie Vanhuss

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, PA)

July 22, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my sister, cousin, aunt and uncle. Sister's name was Lizzie Vanhuss, and was carried off during the war by Mick Vanhuss and his wife. Aunt's name was Clara Eastland; uncle's, Henry Eastland and cousin's, Balam Buckner. The last I heard of cousin Balam he was at Milican's Bend. Mother's name is Matilda Eastland,…

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Willis Mays searching for his aunt Sophia and uncles Ruben Grimes and John Ray

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 12, 1885

MR. EDITOR: I wish to inquire
for my mother's brother and sister
She left them in Kentucky. Moth-
er's name was Lucinda Toltem, her
brothers were Ruben Grimes and
John Ray. She belonged to Alfred
Toltom. She has not heard from
them since 1865. She then heard
they had come to Texas. Mother's
sister was named Sophia. Address
Willis…

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William Young (formerly Paddy Abbey) searching for his brother Alex Burns and others (1st of 2 ads placed)

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 7, 1882

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my brother Alex Burns, who belonged to Ross Burns, in Claiborne county, Miss. I then belonged to J Abbey in the same county, and was called Paddy Abbey, but I now go by the name of William Young. My father was Jack Young. I should like to hear also from my aunt, Adeline Cammack, and her daughter Sophronia and…

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William Young (formerly Paddy Abbey) searching for his aunt Adeline Lomach and her daughters

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 14, 1885

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my aunt Adeline Lomach, and her two daughters Sophronia and Laura Morgan. The last I heard of them they went to New Orleans about 1865. We lived four years with Thomas Abbey, of Claiborne county, Miss. At that time I was Paddy Abbey, but now I go by the name of William Young. Address me at Jackson, Mississippi.

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William Woods searching for his family including his two brothers

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

January 5, 1888

MR. EDITOR––I am desirous of finding out my people I left them in Alhermarle county, Virginia, near Charlottsville, twelve miles. I left in 1840 my brothers Richard and Jack. My name is William. Brother Richard was the oldest. My father's name was John Woods; he belonged to Dr. John Woods; his father, John Woods, was a farmer in about nine miles…

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W. C. Lewis searching for their relatives, including their grandparents Nancy Pratt and Thomas Saunders

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

December 9, 1880

DEAR EDITOR— I wish to inquire through the columns of your paper for my relatives. My grandmother's name was Nancy Pratt; she lived in Chester Co., S. C., about the year 1854. Grandfather's name was Thomas Saunders. My uncles names were John and George Pratt. Uncle John and my mother (Delilah Pratt) were sold to William Darby, who carried them…

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Thomas Young looking for his mother Mary Duken's family

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 10, 1879

DEAR EDITOR : I desire to inquire
for my mother's people. Her
name is Mary Duken; father's
name was Reuben; grand mothers
Kittie. Mother is from Frederick
county, Virginia. The last man
she belonged to was Robert Marshall.
He was going to whip her
one day, and she ran off to Winchester,
Virginia, in April (year
unknown) and…

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Thomas Washington searching for his aunt Georgia Ann Robinson

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

May 27, 1886

MR. EDITOR - I wish to inquire for my aunt, Georgia Ann Robinson, whom I left in Columbia, Boone county, Mo., about ten years ago, and went to St. Louis, Mo. She was owned by Jenkins. Any one knowing such a person will confer a great favor by addressing Thos. Washington, care of Rev. J. P. Bishop, box 484, Moberly, Mo.

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Sylva Wair searching for her parents Adam and Peggie Melton

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 10, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my mother's relations. She left us in Georgia. Her father was named Adam Melton and her mother Peggie Melton. She had a brother. One sister came to Texas with her; they went back shortly after. They came out with a man by the name of Heard. Her brother was named Wilson Melton, and is now in Galveston. Sister's…

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Susan Wilson searching for her relatives, including Henry Payne and her aunt Judy Payne

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 16, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my relatives. My mother was sold from Carthage, Tenn., about the breaking out of the war, to Larkin Payne, of Chattanooga. In the early part of the war I left my aunt Judy Payne and Henry Payne at Carthage, and went to live in Ohio. Address me care of Mr. Cunningham, corner of Rampart and Julia streets, New…

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Susan Shackelford searching for her family

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

February 22, 1883

DEAR EDITOR:--I desire information of my people, I was my mother's oldest child. Grandmother was Charlotte Cox. My aunts were Patience, Margaret and Rosetta and Julia Cox; aunt Julia was the youngest. We belonged to Wm. Cox in Chambers County, Alabama, and were sold and brought to near Huntsville, Texas, in 1854, by Robert Mayer. I married Samuel…

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Silvia Catchings searching for the family of her mother Sallie Qualls

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 30, 1888

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to inquire about my mother's people. She was a native of Virginia, living three miles east of Petersburg. Her name was Sallie Qualls. Her father's was Charley Qualls. Her mother mary, and her grandmothers Sarah and Della. Her sister Julia, and brother Charley. The baby was Peter. Her master was John Qualls and his brother…

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Sarah Hart (formerly Sarah Brady) searching for her parents Sealy Brady and Harry Pritchet

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

March 7, 1889

MR. EDITOR: I desire you to assist me in inquiring for my people. My mother, who is named Sealy Brady, and my father, Harry Pritchet; I had three brothers: James Lucas, Harry Brady and Jordan Brady; two sisters, Luvinia Brady and Binor Brady; my aunts were Amy Grice, Aunt Millie Grice. Anna Grice and Luvinia Grice. I have six uncles: Jordan…

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Samson Gatson searching for his father Rev. Hamon Gatson, brother Anthony Gatson, and aunt Silvia Walter

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

December 13, 1888

MR. EDITOR. I wish to inquire for my father, brother and aunt. We all belonged to Mr. Charles Carity, who lived in South Carolina, on King street, No. 114. My father's name is Rev. Hamon Gatson; brother's name is Anthony Gatson; aunts name is Silvia Walter; she belonged to Mr. Walter, who lived on Ratlis street, South Carolina. The last time I…

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Sallie Evans (formerly Sallie Scott) looking for information about her relatives including father Wm. Watson and brother Davy Crockett

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 9, 1886

MR. EDITOR --- I desire to inquire through your paper for my relatives. I left them in or near Richmond, Va. My mother's name was Mattie Booker; she is dead. My father was named Wm. Watson. Mother went by her first owner's name, Booker; also, father went by his owner's name; but at my remembrance mother belonged to a Mr. John Morris, who sold her…

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Roberta Ann Witherspoon searching for her father Clem. Bennett and aunt Minerva Burnett

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

December 9, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I desire to inquire of my father, Clem. Bennett. He went to Texas with Brisco Bennett about the year 1857. My mother's name was Martha Bennett—belonged to Green Burnett. He had three children by my mother, Roberta Ann, Laura Ann, and Willis who was a baby when he left. Also I want to learn of my aunt Minerva Burnett who also went to…

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Robert F. Sturdivant (formerly Robert Freer) searching for his aunt Henrietta Eaton

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 8, 1880

MR. EDITOR-- I wish to inquire for my aunt. Her name was Henrietta Eaton when she came from Granville county, North Carolina, and her husband was David Eaton. He belonged to John Eaton in North Carolina, and her baby at that time was a boy named Granderson, but other children were born afterward, and she has not seen me since she left North…

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Rhoda Sanders searching for her family

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

May 10, 1883

MR.EDITOR:--I wish to inquire for my parents and kindred. Mother was Mary Avernathen, because she belonged to Mr. Avernathen. Her sister Ann also belonged to him.After the estate was divided she was sold to her husband's owner. Husband was Dickerson, but I do not know his full name or that of his owner. Mother had five children--three girls and two…

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Rhoda Davis seeking her uncles Ephriam Phagens and Charles Merrill, and her brother Frank Merrill

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 25, 1889

DEAR EDITOR: I want to find my people whom I left in Alabama and have not heard from in ten years. I left an uncle named Ephriam Phagens. His wife was Hoppee Merrill. They were at Greenville, Ala., the last I heard of them. My brother was Frank Merrill, my uncle was Charles Merrill. Any information will be thankfully received. Address RHODA…

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Reverend H. P. Coulter seeking his family, including his father Henry Couter (formerly Henry Turntine)

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 10, 1887

MR. EDITOR-I want to inquire through your valuable columns for my people. My grandfather's name is Billy Shurn, my grandmother Milley Sheppards, formerly belonged to a man by the name of Wm. Shurn, Grandfather's former master. Sheppards was the name of grandmother's master. Their children were Lucinda Sheppards, Sicily Sheppards, Henry Coulter,…

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Rev. Moses P. Franklin, Jr. searching for his father's family

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 10, 1882

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my father's kin people. Grandfather was Thomas Franklin, and he died belonging to Dr. James, of Farquhar county, Virginia, below Warrenton Courthouse. His wife, Rachel, belonged to the same man. His oldest child was Williams; the next was Emperor. Sister Jane married a Mr. Jackson. John, Fanny, Harrison, Thomas,…

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R. Lenford searching for their aunt Peney Corson

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 13, 1881

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my aunt Peney Corson. When she left Georgia, in 1855 she had a daughter named Eveline, a twin Matilda, and another named Malinda. When last heard from she was below Hallettsville. Address me at West Point, Texas. R. LENFORD.

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R. Gray searching for his maternal uncles Lawson and Charlie McClennan and his maternal aunts America McClennan and Mary Birtin (1st of 2 ads)

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

September 14, 1893

INFORMATION WANTED--Of
my mother's three brothers and
two sisters. When last heard of
two brothers and two sisters, Law-
son and Charlie McClennan and
the girls America McClennan and
Mary Birtin, whose husband was
killed by a mule just after the war.
My mother's name was Queen Gray
and father, Benjamin Gray. They
died 1873 in Trousdale…

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Palmer Hues searching for his grandmother Sopha Bell and aunt Caroline Joseph

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 19, 1880

MR. EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my grandmother, Sopha Bell, and aunt Caroline Joseph. Aunthad a son named Amos Bell who was a member of St. Paul's Church in New Orleans, but he came up the country in 1866. He had two daughters, Palmy and Octavia Bell. The last I heard of him he was dead. Grandmother and aunt were living in New Orleans, on…

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P. S. Foster seeking Lucy, Derandy, and Dilcy Dewalt

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 21, 1881

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to make inquiry about my kindred in South Carolina. We left them in 1867, and have not heard from them since. My father's step-mother is is named Lucy Dewalt. She use to belong to the family of Dewalt's, in South Carolina. We left there in the year 1867 on the account of bush-whackers. Mother's sister's name is Derandy Dewalt,…

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