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 Obituary for Reuben R. Mims The Eagle (Lovan, AL) April 12, 1901 Isaac Stewart seeking his brother Robert Lane The Nationalist (Mobile, AL) June 21, 1866 Fanny Cooper searching for her children, Thornton and Jane Page and Lawson Davis Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA) July 21, 1866 Nancy Hall searching for her sisters, Luvenia and Charlotte Perry, and her daughter, Fanny Brown Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA) July 21, 1866 Betsy Boyken searching for her children William and Thadeus, and Rebecca, Susan, and Robert Lawton Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA) July 21, 1866 Mother of Haines Devant searching for her son, his family Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA) July 21, 1866 Andrew Jenkins searching for his wife Rosa Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA) July 21, 1866 Unnamed married woman reunited with unnamed former husband Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA) July 24, 1875 Randolph Smith searching for his son The Pacific Appeal (San Francisco, CA) December 7, 1872 Charlotte Richardson seeking her daughter Louisa Alexandria Richardson The Pacific Appeal (San Francisco, CA) November 28, 1863 S. D. Mynor Jr. searching for Irvin Lowe (formerly Irvin Martin) Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 15, 1880 Handy Gales searching for his uncles Frank Walker and Rind Thomas Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 24, 1880 E. G. Gater seeking their son Emmanuel Gater Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 26, 1887 Dorcas Jones searching for her daughter Ann Elizabeth Williams (formerly Ann Elizabeth Smith) True Southerner (Hampton, VA) April 12, 1866 Hannah and Caesar Mallory are searching for their children. True Southerner (Hampton, VA) March 29, 1866 Samuel Williams searching for his father Reuben Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) February 2, 1873 Hannah and Caesar Mallory looking for their children Lewis, William B. Giles, Johnson, Caesar, and Frank Mallory True Southerner (Hampton, VA) March 29, 1866 Eliza Hincher is searching for her husband, Thomas Hincher The Richmond Times (Richmond, VA) August 1, 1866 Hiram Bigsby searching for his wife and children The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) November 16, 1872 Unidentified person searching for Eliza Harris The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) November 16, 1872 B. S. Fuller searching for his mother Jane Fuller The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) May 25, 1871 George W. Carter searching for Charles Aquilla Rogers The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) January 15, 1869 Henry Watson searching for his uncle Andy Terrill The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) December 29, 1871 Mary C. Stewart searching for her father William W. Wheeler The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) December 20, 1873 Thomas Grover searching for a man he called Uncle Moody The Elevator (San Francisco, CA) April 25, 1874 of 25
