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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S. ArmyU. S. Colored InfantryU. S. Colored TroopsU. S. Navyuncle(s)Underground Railroadunnamed person searchingveteranwhite fatherwhite newspaperwidow James Williams searching for his brother-in-law John Archer The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) October 17, 1874 Henry Hall searching for his brother Nathaniel Hall The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) November 8, 1873 Jane Stokes searching for her mother Mrs. Harriet Cooley and her children The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) June 25, 1869 Georgiana Gibson searching for her mother Dorcas Barton The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) December 31, 1869 Jane A. Jackson searching for her niece Louisa Alexander Thomas The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) May 23, 1869 Burton Isom searching for his brother Robert Isom The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) July 5, 1868 Unidentified mother searching for her son James Marriot The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) June 14, 1870 Martha Ann Goff searching for her father William Goff The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) October 15, 1869 Sarah Johnson searching for her son Wm. Henry Wilson The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) May 4, 1869 George W. Dennis and relatives searching for brothers Andrew and Richard Dennis The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) May 30, 1865 Lucy Peterson searching for her sister Sarah Wright The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) October 15, 1869 Unidentified man searching for his father Alfred Turner The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) July 8, 1870 Isaac Moore searching for his father Abraham and mother Tomer The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) December 29,1871 Mrs. Potter searching for her father Jos. C. Chase The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) May 4, 1869 Margaret Stone searching for her son Benjamin The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) December 4, 1868 James Brodis searching for his siblings Edward and Harriet Brodis The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) November 6, 1868 J. P. Dyer searching for his sister Ann Maria Blake The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) October 2, 1868 F. R. Williams searching for Mrs. Sarah Washington or Miss Rosetta Jurdon The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) August 21, 1868 John Anderson searching for Mrs. Allen The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) June 12, 1868 Joseph C. Stevens searching for his brother Curtis Stevens The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) January 24, 1868 Elsina Maze searching for her sister Mrs. Jane Twine (formerly Jane Orr) The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) December 13, 1867 Catherine Jackson searching for her children Mary Ann Ringo, America and Henry Thompson, Susannah and Eleanor Darby, and Harrison Kane The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) July 5, 1867 Mrs. W. H. Harper searching for her sisters Maria Finnemore and Theresa Gory The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) July 5, 1867 Nathan Malony searching for his wife Eve The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) October 6, 1866 Geo. W. Boydsdun searching for Franklin Nicholas, Willis Tarbush, and Amanda Cox Boydsdun The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) October 27, 1865 of 25
