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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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Mrs. Alice Bernard searching for her brothers William Johnson, Leonard Stepney, and Richard Coats

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 23, 1880

MR. EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my brothers, William Johnson, Leonard Stepney and Richard Coats. They were born in Maryland, and their mother's name was Minnie Stepny. We were sold by Dr. Thos. Blake. I have an idea that they must be somewhere in this city. I read a paper which said that Erick Johnson, born in Maryland, died here, and I think it…

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Sophier Poole (formerly Sophier Staples) searching for her mother Martha Staples

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 14, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my mother. Her name was Martha Staples, but sometimes went by the name of Martha Hastin. She belonged to James Staples, who lived in Henry county, Va. She was then sold to some one unknown to me. The last time I heard from her she was in Montgomery, Ala. My name was Sophier Staples. I have married since—my name…

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Rachel Bannister (formerly Rachel) searching for his sisters Easter and Lucinda

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

March 23, 1882

MR. EDITOR—About the beginning of the war Claiborne Brastdie owned three colored girls, named Easter, Lucinda and Rachel, He lived in Harrisburg, Kentucky. These girls went by his name, and were all sold at one sale. Easter was sold to Prize Bunton, and he sold her to traders. When last heard of she was in Huntsville, Alabama. Lucinda was sold to…

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Mrs. Fanny Barber searching for her son John C. Evans (formerly John Barber)

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

March 23, 1882

MR. EDITOR—I read in your paper of Dec. 23, 1881, about my son. His name is John Barber, but changed to John C. Evans. He was sold to a trader in 1851, at the age of fourteen. I have written two letters but have received no answer. I am very anxious to hear of him, as I am alone in this world. Mrs. Fanny Barber, No. 257 Conti street, corner…

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Anna Quinn (formerly Anna King) searching for her parents Louis and Elizabeth Taylor

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 27, 1889

MR. EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my dear mother and father whom I left in Virginia when [undecipherable] was sold at ten years old. M[undecipherable] name at that time was Roe Burte[undecipherable] Anna King George Thomas. M[undecipherable] father's name was Louis Taylo[undecipherable] and mother was Elizabeth Taylor. My brothers were Robert…

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Charles Moore searching for his brother Handy Harper (formerly Handy Moore)

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 13, 1889

DEAR EDITOR: I want to inquire for my brother, Handy Moore. We were three brothers: George, Handy and Charley. I am the oldest one. We all belonged to Wright Moore before the war. Handy changed his name after his father's, who was a Harper. Our mother is named Annie. She is living with me. The last time I heard from George he was in Vicksburg,…

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Harriet Bolden (formerly Harriet Turner) searching for Nathan and Mimmia Turner

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 1, 1888

Dear Editor: I wish to inquire for my mother and father. Nathan and Mimmia Turner, they formerly belonged to Col. Steele, Woodford Co., near Lexington, Kentucky. I had two sisters; Elizabeth and Peggy Turner. I was sold in Lexington, Ky., when I was 12 years of age, and now I am mother of twenty children. My name was Harriet Turner, but I…

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H. A. Williams (formerly Simon) searching for his mother Mary and aunts

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 1, 1888

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my people. I left them in South Carolina about thirty-six years ago. My grandmother belonged to William White. My mother was Mary. She belonged to Bill Brunsen. My aunt Hannah was sold to John Denis at Monks Corner, South Carolina, about 1856. I belonged to William White. I had another aunt belonging to the same…

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Malissa Baker (formerly Malissa Robertson) searching for Bettie and Mary Hicks

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 20, 1888

DEAR ECITOR:—I wish to find my grandmother and mother. Mother was Mary Hicks. Grandmother was Bettie Hicks. They used to belong to Jimmie Hicks. I was sold when quite young and given to Jimmie Hick's daughter; whose name was Hannah Newman. Her husband was a Baptist preacher, named Isaac Newman. I left them in Scottcounty, Missouri. My name was then…

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Ann Murphy (formerly Martha Ann Greene) searching for her siblings John Richards, Somerset Greene, and Lucy Belmo

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 20, 1888

MR. EDITOR:—I wish to inquire for my brothers and sister, I left in Virginia near Cumberland Court House. My brother's were named John Richards and Somerset Green. My sister's name was Lucy Belmo. We all belonged to a lawyer Matthews near Cumberland Court House. He had three sons. William, Thomas and George Matthews, and two daughters, Kate and…

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Alice Bell (formerly Alice Walker) searching for her mother Kate and siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 13, 1888

MR. EDITOR:—I wont to inquire for my people, from whom I was taken when quite young. We lived in South Carolina, near Greeneville. I was so young I can't remember anything about it, but I am going by what was told me. Mother was Kate, and belonged to Mr. Oliver Barrett. He moved away and turned her over to Mr. Haseclaw. I had three brothers: Joe,…

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Willis Greenwood searching for his sister, brother-in-law Jack, nephew Henry, and niece Peggy

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 24, 1881

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to hear of relations whom I left in Georgia in 1840, and have not heard from since. A sister there was the mother of twelve children, and she belonged to Adam Jones, on Long Creek. Her husband was a mulatto named Jack. Their oldest boy was Henry; girl Peggy. I do not remember the name of the others. I belonged to Aaron Crief. In…

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Mary Friday (formerly Mary Jane Stockly) searching for her mother Millie Stockly

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 6, 1888

DEAR EDITOR: Please allow me to inquire for my relatives. My mother was Miilie Stockly; father, Joshua Stockly; my father was a free man but my mother was a slave. My brothers were Gillie, Isaac, Neddie, William, Frank and Juby my sisters were Tilda, Collin, Hannah, Milkie, Ann, Mollie and Martha, my first owner was named Jim Dennis. I was sold…

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Celia Greenwood (formerly Celia Gatewood) looking for Jack Jones and Lucinda Barbour

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 24, 1881

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to inquire for the old man Jack Jones. He was the father of twelve children. My name is now Celia Greenwood, but in Virginia I was known as Celia Gatewood. I was born in Fredericksburg. Mother was Winnie Jones, and I was raised by Mr. George Ellis. Mother died and left two boys and two girls. Celia and Joseph were the oldest…

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Hill Morris searching for the family of his wife Ailsey Morris (formerly Ailsey Griffy)

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 24, 1881

DEAR EDITOR: Hill Morris, of Oak Hill, Fort Bend Co., Texas, wants to know the whereabouts of Silvey and Rachel Griffy, sisters of his wife, whose maiden name was Ailsey Griffy; also of his eldest brother, Daniel, and his sister, Esther. They were, the last he knew of them, in McDonald Co., North Carolina, and belonged to James Morrison, and was…

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John Walker searching for his mother Matilda Walker and his siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 6, 1888

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to know the whereabouts of my mother, brothers and sisters. My mother was Matilda Walker. Her first owner's was a man named Walker, in Newton County, Ga. My brothers were Frank, Joseph and Charley. Sisters were Harrie, Dilsie and Lethie. The last man who owned us in Georgia was Capt. McCirty, who lived between Dalton and Tunnel…

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Reuben Lynch (formerly Reuben Austin) searching for his mother Kitty

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 10, 1881

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my mother Kitty. She was sold to a man by the name of Gates, who kept a ferry on the Chattahootchie river, State of Alaboma. She had two children with her when sold, the girl was named Eliza, the boy Moses. My oldest sister Eadie I left in the State of Georgia, Elbert county, with a man named John Andrews Harper.…

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Margaret Lynn (formerly Margaret Carlton) seeking her mother Sydney Carlton and her siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 10, 1881

MR. EDITOR—My relatives I left near Hillsborough within 12 miles of Eldorado, Arkansas. Mother's name Sydney Carlton. Sisters, Maria, Agnes, Louisa and Ellen Carlton, brothers Ben and Jack Carlton. I was brought to this country by Pink Scales in 1858 or 1859 My name at that time was Margaret Carlton. Address me at Shell Mound, Leflore county, M…

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Eadie Tolson (formerly Eadie Dickens) seeking her sons John Chesterfield and William Henry

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 10, 1881

DEAR EDITOR— I wish to inquire for my two sons, John Chesterfield and William Henry. I was sold from them by Tom Dickens to a negro trader named Daniel Berry. I left my two sons in Tennessee, near Memphis. My name is Eadie Dickens, but I go by the name of Eadie Tolson. Address me at Spring Hill, Texas.

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Catherine Robinson (formerly Catherine Roberts) searching for her daughter Harriett Roberts

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 14, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my daughter. Her name was Harriett Roberts. She belonged to Rev. Lewis Roberts, who lived on Wolf River, 25 miles from Memphis, Tenn. My husband was named Isaac Roberts. I was sold to the Chickasaw Indians. They were then moving to Arkansas. At the time they bought me, when I left my daughter, she was only 5…

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Liddy Hill (formerly Liddy Powell) searching for her parents Vinnie Birkhater and Green Sunkins

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 11, 1880

MR. EDITOR--I wish to inquire for my people. Mother's name is Vinnie Birkhater. Green Sunkins was my father. Oldest sister was Harriet Birkhater. Brother Harttord is dead. My aunt was Mary Hill and Her husband Simon Hill. Dennis Hill was my owner and he sold me to a speculator named Wm. Henderson, who sold me in Mobile to another speculator. I came…

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Eliza Johnson searching for her grandfather Jacob Scheley

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 4, 1880

DEAR EDITOR— I wish to make inquiry for my grandfather. His name is Jacob Scheley, and my mother left him when a child in Nashville, Tenn. They belonged to George McClaren, and were sold to Robert McClaren, and brought to middle Tennessee. My mother's name was Eliza Silvester McClaren but now is Eliza Johnson. Her mother's name was Julia Ann…

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Josephine Gooden (formerly Josephine Porter) searching for her father Daniel Glover, mother Sarah, and siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 24, 1889

Mr. Editor: I wish to find [undecipherable] people. My father's name [undecipherable] Daniel Glover, and my mot[undecipherable] was named Sarah. She belong[undecipherable] to Wm. Porter, a saddle maker, Petersburg, Va. My oldest s[undecipherable]ter's name was Pattie. She m[undecipherable]ried Daniel Davis. The othe[undecipherable] were sisters…

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Mrs. Fanny Singleton (formerly Fanny Young) searching for her mother Mary Mitchell

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 17, 1889

Mr. Editor: I want to find my mother. I left her in 1884, in the month of February. She lived in Davis Bend, Warren or Adams county, Miss. My mother's name when I left her was Mary Mitchell, but she wrote me that she was going to get married, so it may be changed. My name was Fanny Young when I left home, but since that I have married, and my…

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Ed Spencer (formerly Ed Huff) searching for his father Spencer Thurman, mother Charlotte Huff, and siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 17, 1889

Mr. Editor I wish to inquire for my people through your paper. I belonged to Henry Huff, who lived in Clark county, Ga., near Watkinsville. My father, Spencer Thurman, belonged to a man named Thurman, in the same county. My mother, Charlotte Huff, belonged to Henry Huff, and at his death I fell to Johnson Huff. I was stolen from my master by a…

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