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    • Changed name appears in ads in which the person placing the ad suspects that the person they are searching for changed his/her name after emancipation or following a marriage. It also refers to instances in which the person placing the ad has changed their name after emancipation or marriage. Formerly enslaved people changed their names to distance themselves from their enslavers.

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Isaac Rayford (formerly Isaac Fanous) searching for his parents, Franklin and Esther Finley, and his siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 8, 1880

MR. EDITOR—I desire to inquire for my kin people. My father's and mother's names were Franklin and Esther Finley. I had three brothers, Benjamin, Tip and Daniel, and four sisters, Jane, Harriet, Laura and Missouri. John Finley was their owner, and lived in Troup county, Georgia. When I last heard from them they lived at Camden, Arkansas. At that…

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Charley Strong (formerly Charley Johnson) searching for his mother Eliza Johnson, brother Andrew Johnson, and sister Mary Johnson

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 8, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my mother, brother and sister. Mother lived in Baltimore, Maryland, on South two doors from Sawsberry street. When I left, she was living with James Jone, a merchant tailor. I belonged to Jacob Graving Stein at that time. Her name name is Eliza Johnson. My brother and sister were brought to Louisiana by a negro…

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Thomas Pierce searching for his brother Martin Lipcombe

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 1, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my brother, Martin Lipcombe. His mother's name is Nancy Gaines. He had two uncles, Elick and Washington Gaines; two brothers, Thomas and Alfred Gaines; and two sisters, Betsie and Martha. Since the war Thomas goes by the name of Thomas Pierce. Betsie belonged to Mrs. Walker, of Mobile, and was known as Betsie…

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Rebecca Bell (formerly Rebecca Wade) searching for her mother Lucy Wade

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 29, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my mother, Lucy Wade, who belonged to one Davis, in Summit, Miss. Davis sold her to Cooney McCray and McCray carried her, with her son and daughter, to Texas. I have heard from her once. She was then in Galveston, Texas. Her son was named Bolden and her daughter Martha Wade. The Dav ses were named Huah and Bab.…

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Eliza Handy (formerly Eliza Dancey) searching for her children Mollida Barnett, Mary Slaughter, and Ellen

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 22, 1880

DEAR EDITOR- I wish to inquire for my three children. Mollida Barnett, the first one, left me about 40 years ago, was bought by speculators in Charlotte, N.C., and carried to Columbus, Ala. Mary Slaughter was carried from Canton to New Orleans. She belonged to Lewis Slaughter, who sold her in New Orleans, where he kept a tavern. Daughter Ellen…

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B. Powe searching for their aunt Delia Stover

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 15, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my aunt, Delia Stover. She belonged to Capt. Stover about 29 years ago, as near as I can remember. She has a brother named Jack Powe, who used to go by the name of Jack Stover. Just before Capt. Stover's death he made a will, and my aunt and father were separated. Aunt fell to Bob Gordon's wife and was carried to…

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Harriet Dupre (formerly Harriet Jenkins) searching for her brothers Richard and Daniel

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

Auguste 12, 1880

DEAR EDITOR— I wish to inquire for my brothers Richard and Daniel, whom I left in Red River county about 1862. Richard belonged to Levi Childs and Daniel to Joe Cade. When I left them I had two children, Mittie and Jemima. I did not know what names brothers went by at that time. We came from Georgia together, with Joe Cade, to Red River, Texas,…

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William May (formerly William Stokes) searching for his mother Jennie Stokes

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 17, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my mother whom Jack Samson stole from his grandmother, Telalice Stokes, a widow, and carried her and my brothers to Georgia. Her name is Jennie Stokes; brothers Soothe, Stephen, Dick and Mancher Stokes. My sisters are Juliet, Honney and Mary Stokes. I had a brother, Cyrus Jimson, who died about 35 years ago. Jack…

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Maria Green (formerly Maria Moore) searching for relatives Mike, Calliope, Susan, and Jane

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 12, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire my people, Mike, Calliope, Susan and Jane. The last I saw of them was near Grand Gulf, Mississippi, about 1840. They went to New Orleans to their owner, Richard Harris. I left my youngest sister and eight aunts, Susan Bryant, Mary, Charlotte, Margaret, Betty, Lizzie, Peggia and Agnes Humphrey, with Capt. Geo.…

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Mrs. Dr. C. T. Howard (formerly Anna Maria White) searching for her grandmother Palmer, aunts, and uncles

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 26, 1880

MR EDITOR— I wish to inquire for my grandmother, aunt and uncle. Grandmother's owner was Dr. Palmer, of Sumpter county, Alabama. Her name was Palmer. She had seven daughters and two sons the last I heard of her, namely: Maria, who belonged to Dr. Palmer; Gracy Devan, Dorcas Ridel, Manda Brackton, Zelpher Truthgill, Hannah Truthgill, Philis Watkins.…

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James W. White searching for his mother and siblings, including his sister Betty Posqually

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 22, 1880

MR. EDITOR— I wish to inquire for my folks. I left mother in Aberdeen, Miss., when I was quite a boy. Father's name was Bob White, commonly called Free Bob. He died the first year of the war and left a girl, Jane White, my sister, with mother. Bob White, my brother, belonged to Bob Ellis, who lived about nine miles from Columbus, Miss., and was a…

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Reverend Grey searching for the family of his mother-in-law Dinah Flowers (formerly Dinah Simon)

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 22, 1888

DEAR EDITOR— I want to find the whereabouts of my mother-in-laws relations. Her father's name was Samuel Young, and her mother Nancy Young. When she left them, they had six children, four boys and two girls. The boys were Samuel,* Ben and Stepney, the other one was so young we cannot remember his name. She had one sister named Dorcas. Ben and…

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Bennet H. Forrest seeking his grandparents Bennet and Delila Johnson

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

January 9, 1883

MR. EDITOR :—I desire to inquire for my mother's relatives, whom she left in Cloverport, Ky. Her father's and mother's names were Bennet and Delila Johnson; brothers, Rolling, Elisha, Wesley and Bob Johnson. She also had a brother named Smith Bonlette. Her name at that time was Sarah Johnson, but it is now Sarah Forrest. Her aunts were Bettie…

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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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Bennet H. Forrest seeking the family of his mother Sarah Forrest (formerly Sally Johnson and Sally Brown)

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 17, 1882

MR. EDITOR: I desire to inquire for my mother's relatives whom she left in Cloverport, Ky. Her father's name was Bennet, and mother's Deliley Johnson. Brothers, Rolling, Elisha, Westley, and Bob. Johnson; and her name was at that time Sally Johnson. My mother also had a brother named Smith Boulette by father. Her son's name was Henry Clay Brown. …

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Emily Wilson (formerly Emily Priest) searching for her daughter Mary Ann

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 15, 1882

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my daughter Mary Ann. I was sold from her in 1846. At that time we both belonged to Daniel Priest, who lived in ———, Montgomery county, Ky. I was sold to Daniel Balus, who lived in Bourbon Co., Ky. Afterward I was sold to a trader named Pierce Griffia. He carried me to Louisiana, on Bayou Plaquemines, twenty-five…

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Lucy Nicholls (formerly Lucy Pattison) searching for her siblings Martha, Nancy, Dan, and Bill Pattison

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 20, 1889

MR. EDITOR: Lucy Pattison who belonged to Sam Pattison of Virginia near Richmond, married a man by the name of Bill Nicholls. His mother's name was Kitty Nicholls and belonged to Peter Jackson in Virginia. My sisters' names were Martha and Nancy; my brothers' names were Dan and Bill Pattison. I go by the name of Lucy Nicholls. Address me…

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Ed Williams searching for his brothers Andrew and Washington Dabbs

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 15, 1889

Mr. Editor: "I wish to inquire through your valuable paper for the whereabouts of my two brothers, Washington and Andrew Dabbs. They and I are natives of Washington, Tenn. Is ante bellum days brother Washington was sold to one Jos. Dabbs, whose name he thereafter bore (having borne the name Stephen prior thereto), and brother Andrew went with the…

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Annie Strange (formerly Siphinam Gonshaw) searching for her siblings Anthony Gonshaw, Daniel Gonshaw, Dolphus Gonshaw, and Catherine Jones

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 15, 1889

Mr. Editor: I want to find, if possible, where my three brothers and one sister are living. Names: Anthony, Daniel, Gonshaw, Dolphus, and Catherine Jones. I have not seen them since the war. All of them went by the names of their owners, the two Gonshaws, and lived in Vicksburg, Miss. My other brother and sister lived in Brandon, Miss. Our…

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Caesar Ferguson searching for his uncle Benjamin and aunt Phillis

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 2, 1880

MR. EDITOR— I desire to inquire for my relatives whom I left in Clarkville, Red River Co., Texas— my uncle Benjamin and aunt Phillis. They had eight children, seven daughters and one son, viz: Overton, Mary, Sallie Ann, Martha, Francis, Dianna, Clarice, and Rachel. They all belonged to Mark Cordall and I to Robert Seward. After Mr. Seward's death I…

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Sarah Ratliff (formerly Sarah Davidson and Sarah Vance) searching for her siblings James Almnight, Henry Davidson, and Mary Knight

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 9, 1880

DEAR EDITOR— I wish to inquire for two brothers and one sister— James Almnight, Henry Davidson and Mary Knight. Brothers left me at Batesville in 1865. James went to Helena and then to New Orleans. The last I heard of him he was living at the latter place in 1870. Henry went to Ohio about the close of the war. The last I heard of him was in 1873,…

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Caroline Rhodes (formerly Annie Ferrill) searching for her father Joseph, mother Milly, and siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 16, 1880

DEAR EDITOR— I wish to inquire about my relatives. I was born in Virginia, but am unable to name the county; but I remember that it was 12 miles from Daville. My master was James Ferrill and mistress Martha Ferrill. I was sold to Ferrill's brother, William Ferrill, a speculator, and was brought to Mobile at the age of 10 years. To my recollection…

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E. C. Cooper searching for his mother-in-law Sarah Nichson

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 1, 1889

Mr. Editor: I wish to enquire for my wife's people. Her mother's name was Sarah Nichson. She used to live in Jasper county. I have not seen or heard from her for eight years. My wife's name used to be Hannah Summerlin; now it is Hannah Cooper. Address me at Parker, post office, Miss. E. U. COOPER.

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Mary Goodloe searching for her stepfather Daniel Battle and mother Eliza Battle

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 18, 1889

Mr, Editor: I want to f[undecipherable] people. My stepfather is [undecipherable] Daniel Battle, a minister of t[undecipherable] E. Church, my mother is [undecipherable] Eliza Battle. I have two si[undecipherable] one is named Christy Ann [undecipherable] and the other is named [undecipherable] Battle. I have three bro[undecipherable] the oldest…

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Lucinda Vanslyke (formerly Lucinda Felterman) searching for her daughter Anna Felterman

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 4, 1889

MR. EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my daughter, who left me when she was twelve years old. Her name was Anna Felterman. I had another daughter whose name was Laura. She left Breashear City July 3, 1863, with a Yankee captain, by name M. S. Tyler, captain in a colored regiment. The last time I heard from her she was in New York City, doing well,…

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