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Emancipation refers to people identified as having been freed either by their enslaver prior to the Civil War or via the Thirteenth Amendment after the war (1865).
Rev. J. Sella Martin reuniting with unnamed sister, niece, and nephew
National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)
September 13, 1862
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Mintie Anderson searching for her father Sam Graham, mother Susan Graham, sisters, and brothers
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
October 9, 1879
DEAR EDITOR—I wish to make inquiry for my father, mother, sister and brothers, whom I left in Washington, Md., before the emancipation. My father's name was Sam Graham, mother's Susan Graham, brothers' Jimmy and Moses Graham, and sister's Letbia Ann. She was sold after the death of Col. Platers to Perry Lyles. Her mother's name was Mintie Beans,…
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W. H. Jackson searching for his uncle Jonah Hartley
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
August 7, 1879
DEAR EDITOR—I am seeking the whereabouts of my Uncle Jonah Hartly. Mr. Edwin A. Glover bought him from his first owner, Capt. Hartly, and brought him to Texas. Uncle being very sickly, and unable to work, he sent him back to Alabama, Marengo Co., about one year before emancipation. He left his wife here. Her name is Mary Ann. My mother, Jonah's…
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Mr. Ambrose reunited with his family
National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)
October 12, 1865
A FAMILY REUNION. HOW AN ESCAPED SLAVE BECAME WEALTHY AND DISCOVERED HIS RELATIVES. A Chicago paper tells the story of the return to the South of an escaped slave, who had amassed wealth in the North, and recently started on a journey to discover his relatives, whom he found in Louisiana. The story is as follows: "A few years ago, a runaway…
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R. N. Ivy searching for their father
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 19, 1879
DEAR EDITOR—I want to find my father. He left us about two years before emancipation. We once belonged to a man named Ben Jvy, near Livingston, Sumpter Co., Ala., next to John T. Smith. I know the old man is old and needs his children to work for him. The oldest was Judy, next Patrick, Ransom, Cora, Peter and Emma Ivy. We are all living in…
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Lavinia Carrington seeking her mother Tempy Hall
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
March 29, 1888
MR. EDITOR—I would like to find my mother; she used to belong to Mrs. Eliza Thompson; her name was Tempy Hall; she was sold from me when I was a little girl; she was sold just before freedom. Her mother was named Binah Hall; her father Jerry Hall. She was sold in Greenville, S. C., by Mrs. Thompson's son, Waddy Thompson. All her relatives live in…
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John Hawkins Gibson looking for his brother Israel Carr
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
November 17, 1881
DEAR EDITOR—My brother Israel Carr, deaf and dumb, went off from this place with a man by the name of Northcraft, a jail contractor, at the time of the exodus to Kansas. Northcraft claimed to live in San Marcos and wanted Israel to stay at his house, do the marketing, etc. I have since written to Northcraft without any reply. Israel had lost the…
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Sarah Walker searching for her parents William and Esther Burney
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
March 14, 1889
MR. EDITOR: I desire to find my people. I lived in Jefferson Co., Fla., and was brought from there by a men named Mr. Jenkins. He brought me from Florida to Texas several years before the Emancipation. My mother and father's names were William and Esther Burney. I left two brothers there by the names of William and Green Burney. I had three…
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Hannah Johnson searching for her parents Susan and Paul
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
February 21, 1889
DEAR EDITOR—I desire to find my people. Mother's name is Susan, and father's name is Paul. They belonged to John Bull, who was living then in South Carolina near Abbeville courthouse. We were sold to different men; I was sold to a man by the name of Robert with my sister named Cassey. I have five other sisters of whom I have not heard from since…
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Melindy Stewart searching for her mother Eliza, father Jack, and siblings
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
August 19, 1880
MR. EDITOR—I desire to inquire for my mother, Eliza; father, Jack, brothers, Alfred, Anthony and Wilson, and sisters Frances and Elvira, who belonged to John Seal, of Colfax, Grant parish, La. Sister Elizabeth and myself came to Texas about twenty-five years ago, with John Seal. The last I heard of my folks mother wrote me directly after…
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Watson Duckweth searching for his parents Jennie and Edmond Woods, and his siblings
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
August 18, 1881
MR. EDITOR: I desire information of my people. In South Carolina, in 1846 we belonged to Robert Woods. My mother and father were Jennie and Edmond Woods. Robert Woods sold them to a neighbor, after which he took brothers George Logan, Rufus, Pinckney, Leeroy Burton Woods, and myself to Georgia, about 100 miles east of Resaca. We stayed with Robert…
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I. W. Kenscer searching for his brother-in-laws Holing and Philmore Rowe
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
May 23, 1889
MR. EDITOR: I want to inquire for my brother-in-law who went by the names of Holing Rowe, and the other Philmore Rowe. We formerly belonged to a man by the name of Lanson Rowe in Frankling Co., Tennessee. Our father's name was William Holder. Mother's name was Nancy Rowe. She died in Durcard, Tenn., in the time of the war, shortly after we left…
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Rev. James McHenry (formerly James Dewprew) searching for his sister Emaline Dewprew, brother-in-law Oughtaway Johnson, and relatives
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
April 25, 1889
DEAR EDITOR: I wish to make some inquiry for my relations through our most comendable paper. One sister named Emaline Dewprew was sold to one Daniel Dewprew, her husband was named Oughtaway Johnson. They went from Lexington, Oglethorpe county, Ga., to Memphis, Tenn. William Dewprew also be- longed to Daniel Dewprew. Sarah and Louisa and Larry…
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Elmira Mills searching for her mother Millie Mills and siblings Ailsey Mills, Louisa Mills, and Isham
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 30, 1881
DEAR EDITOR—I wish information of mother, sisters, and one brother. Mother's name was Millie Mills; sisters, Ailsey and Louisa Mills. Brother Isham was the youngest; was owned by Jonathan Mills. He moved from Mississippi to Johnson county, Texas, during the war, near Alvarado. Jonathan Mills used to attend Court regularly in Buchanan. I judge by…
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Bettie Lee seeking her siblings Harriet, Eliza, Bob, Sidney, Aaron, and Sarah Jane
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
February 7, 1889
Mr. Editor: Please allow me to inquire for my people whom I left in Tennessee when I was four years old. My mother's name was Peggie Weir; she belonged to a man by the name of Jimmy Weir. She had seven children, two boys and five girls; Bob and Aaron. My oldest sister's name was Harriet; my name is Bettie; I am next to my oldest sister. There is…
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Veston Medlock searching for his relatives, including his mother Betsy, father Jim Hoca, and younger brother Davis
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 23, 1881
DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my people. I left them in 1865 at Spring Hill, Texas. They belonged to a small boy named Tandy Stroud, the son of Gov. Stroud. I have a young brother Davis. Mother was Betsy. Her children were David, John, Nathan, Willis, Isaiah, Rachel, Martha, Nancy, Nellie, Beckie. Jim Hoca was my father. VESTON…
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Mary Ann Ricks seeking her father Cary Guewn
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
February 2, 1888
MR. EDITOR-- I wish to inquire for my father. His name was Cary Guewn; mother's name was Winnie She died the year the stars fell. Father left me in Lagrange Ala. His master's name was Jack Risks, daughter's name Livy Ricks. Any information of his whereabouts will be thankfully received. Address Mary Ann Ricks, Palestine, Texas, care J. H. Curry,…
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James Bailey seeking his brothers and sisters
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
July 28, 1887
MR. EDITOR - I wish to inquire for my people. I have two sisters and brothers, whose names are Malinda, Sallie, Aaron, Alfred and James Bailey. Our master, John Bailey, brought us from Florida to Texas. I have not seen my people since we were set free. Address James Bailey, Dewese Woods, Liberty county, Texas.
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Emmanuel Toby (formerly Toby Grimble) searching for his stepchildren January and Becky Grimble
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
May 13, 1880
DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for January and Becky Grimble, my step-children. I have not seen them for thirty-nine years. I then went by the name of Toby Grimble, but since freedom I have gone by my own name, Emmanuel Toby. Should they see this they will please write to me at Houston, Harris Co., Texas. EMMANUEL TOBY.
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William Ambrose (formerly Ambrose Brackens) searching for his family
New Orleans Tribune (New Orleans, LA)
August 30, 1865
Circular of Inquiry. TO ALL FRIENDS OF HUMANITY. Chicago, May 18, 1865 Mr. WM. AMBROSE, of the firm of Ambrose & Jackson, Restaurant keepers. 91 Clark street, Chicago, Ill., wishes most earnestly to find the family of his mother, brothers and sisters, and will state the following particulars in his own words: "I was known in Kentucky by…
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Mary Jane Minter (Formerly Mary Jane Patton) searching for her brother William Lite Dune
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
March 11, 1880
MR. EDITOR-- I wish to inquire for my brother, William Lite Dune. He and I belonged to the widow Patton in Milligan, Arkansas, and when we were freed I came to Texas. My name was then Mary Jane Patton, but is now Mary Jane Minter. Address me at Phelps, Texas; or in care of Rev. B. M. Taylor, box 109, Huntsville, Texas.
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Robert F. Sturdivant (formerly Robert Freer) searching for his aunt Henrietta Eaton
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
April 8, 1880
MR. EDITOR-- I wish to inquire for my aunt. Her name was Henrietta Eaton when she came from Granville county, North Carolina, and her husband was David Eaton. He belonged to John Eaton in North Carolina, and her baby at that time was a boy named Granderson, but other children were born afterward, and she has not seen me since she left North…
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Wm. Garnet searching for his wife Jane and children Willis, Abraham, and Jeney
Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY)
July 19, 1865
Information Wanted.
WM. GARNET (COLORED), NO. 112 BOLIVAR
street, east of Erie, Cleveland, Ohio, wishes information
of his wife, Jane, and his children, Willis,
Abraham, and Jeney, formerly owned by Daniel Garrett,
of Manchester, Ky. Wm. Garnet has been separated
from his wife and children for fourteen years, and
will pay liberally…
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Green Morgan and Prudence Croan reunited and remarried after 30-year separation
The Examiner (San Francisco, CA)
February 6, 1889
OLD, BUT STILL LOVING.
Remated After a Separation of Thirty
Years.
CRUEL SLAVERY DAYS.
Uncle Green and Aunt Prudence Go Down to the
Grave Together After All.
[Special to the EXAMINER.]
VERSAILLES (Ky.), February 5. -- A marriage
ceremony in the colored Methodist Church
here to-day developed in an ante-bellum ro-
mance [romance] of…
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John Thompson and Kitty Owens reunited and married after 25 years
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
January 17, 1894
EX-SLAVES MARRIED.
Two Old Darkies United After a
Separation of Twenty-Five
Years.
The Groom Had But Ninety Cents To
Pay Magistrate Camp For
His Services.
Two ex-slaves who had not seen each
other for twenty-five years, were married
yesterday by Magistrate B. F. Camp at
his office in Court place. The principals
were John…
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