Keyword Year Type Select Ads Obituaries How to Search Advanced Search Showing 617 results Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)American Citizen (Canton, MS)Anglo-African (New York, NY)Anglo-African (New York)Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Atchison Daily Free Press (Atchison, KS)Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)Baton Rouge Tri-weekly Gazette & Comet (Baton Rouge, LA)Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (Knoxville, TN)Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, NC)Charleston Mercury (Charleston, SC)Clarksville Weekly Chronicle (Clarksville, TN)Cleveland Daily Leader (Cleveland, OH)Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR)Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis, MO)Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)Evening Post (Wilmington, NC)Evening Star (Washington, DC)Gallipolis Journal (Gallipolis, OH)Gold Hill Daily News (Gold Hills, NV) (reprinted, with editorial commentary, from the Indianapolis Evening News)Harrisburg 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TN)The Vicksburg Daily Herald (Vicksburg, MS)The Weekly Clarion (Jackson, MS)The Weekly Louisianian (New Orleans, LA)Topeka Weekly Times (Topeka, KS)True Southerner (Hampton, VA)Union Springs Herald (Union Springs, AL)Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT) [Ad copied from the Zion Church Advocate, published in Washington, DC, with commentary by the editor of the Vermont Phoenix]Weekly Standard (Raleigh, NC) Item Type AdObituary Tags ReconstructionAfrican Methodist Episcopal ChurchArmy Hospitalarmy substituteattorneyaunt(s)capturedchanged namechild(ren)Civil WarCivil War battleConfederate CongressConfederate RaidsConfederate States Armycontrabandscustodydeceaseddesertion (spousal)dying wishemancipationemigrationEnoch Ardenescapedescaped from jailestateestate divisionfamily historyfemale enslaverforced migrationformer enslaverfree people of colorfreedgrandparent(s)heir(s)hired outinheritancekidnappingleft with Union Armyliteracylocation knownmanumittedmaritime workmaster diedmigration 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Navyuncle(s)Underground Railroadunnamed person searchingveteranwhite fatherwhite newspaperwidow Catharine Higgins searching for her grandson John Cooper The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) June 20, 1868 Permelia Muse searching for several members of the Berryman family including Jefferson, Anna Mason, George Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and Mary Catharine Berryman The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) May 16, 1868 Courtney Ann Mukes searching for her mother Ann Eliza Mukes The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) April 11, 1868 Gibson Turner looking for his sisters Nancy and Hannah and brother Clemen The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) January 25, 1868 Andrew Pleasant searching for Polly Rush, Joseph Price, David Pleasants, and several other men The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) January 18, 1868 Mary Brown searching for her sons Jerry and James Wilson The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) January 18, 1868 Arnold and Maria Sumers searching for their son Charles The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) December 28, 1867 Mary A. Drowry searching for her husband Zebulon A. Drowry The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) December 28, 1867 Mary Ann Sipple searching for her son Joseph Sipple The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) December 21, 1867 Eliza Clark (formerly Eliza Brooks) searching for her mother Martha Tiles and siblings Lucy, John Thomas, Lewis Green, and Ann Brooks The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) December 14, 1867 Malinda Smith searching for her children Melissa Walker, Waverly and Alexander Johnson, and William, Chloe and Archie Woodson The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) November 30, 1867 Rickley and Bro. Bankers searching for Miss Drusa (Drusilla) Nupper The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) November 9, 1867 Thomas Lewis searching for his parents Horace and Sarah Jones and several siblings and half-siblings The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) November 9, 1867 John Granston and Albert Thurston Robinson searching for their parents, with the help of Susan Trueblood The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) November 2, 1867 Daniel McCulloh searching for his brother James Thomas and also a James Dement The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) November 2, 1867 Adeline Bell searching for her sister Mary Ann Washington (formerly Mary Ann Graham) The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) October 5, 1867 James Tilman searching for his siblings Jerry Jarman, Charles Moore and Lydia Bell The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) September 28, 1867 Sandy Wilson searching for his mother Margaret Jones and several family members The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) August 17, 1867 Lucinda Johnson looking for her mother Hannah and brother Levy The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) July 20, 1867 Mary Philips searching for her brother Edward Island The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) June 29, 1867 Lucy Lee searching for her daughter Julia Cranly The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) June 22, 1867 John R. Scott searching for his sister Mary Jane Page Scott The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) June 22, 1867 Prudence and Phillis Carrol searching for their respective husbands John Atkinson and Bob Applewhite The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) June 22, 1867 Martishia Owens searching for her son George Owens The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) June 8, 1867 Mary Francis Wiggins searching for her parents Moses and Betsey Wiggins The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) May 25, 1867 of 25
