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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).
"Uncle Levi" and "Aunt Aggie" reunited and remarried after 40 years
The Butler Weekly Times (Butler, MO)
January 30, 1884
A ROMANCE OF SLAVERY.
The Husband and Wife Torn Apart
Forty Years Ago Happily United.
Rome, Ga. Special to Courier-Journal.
That there are romances as touching
in negro life as were ever told is
proven by the story of a colored
couple named Uncle Levi and Aunt
Aggie, who lived in Cedartown Valley.
In 1840 Levi belonged to Mr.…
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Alexander Reynolds looking for information about his father Jacob and several members of his family
The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)
May 20, 1880
INFORMATION WANTED OF MY FATHER,
mother, brothers and sisters. My father's
name was Jacob; he belonged to a man by
the name of Hayes. I left them in Rock-
ingham county, North Carolina. My moth-
er belonged to the widow Reynolds, same
county; my brother's name was James. I
don't know the man to whom he belonged.
My sister's names are Mickey…
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Amos Wilder (formerly Amos Philgore) seeking information about his brother George Wilder, sisters Jane and Hannah Williford, and several family members
The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
March 25, 1886
MR. EDITOR. ---- I desire to inquire for my people. I left them in Quincy, Florida in 1861, in Gadson county. My oldest brother went by the name of George Wilder; my younger brother belonged to Foreman and Muse; two sisters, the oldest named Jane, she belonged to William and Jessie Wilder, and she was brought from Florida to New Orleans, La., in…
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Andrew Jackson Cook looking for his father Robert Cook
The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)
March 23, 1882
INFORMATION WANTED OF MY FATH-
er. He was a free man some time be
fore the war. He lived in Little Rock, Ark
About the year 1858, he left Little Rock and
went to Ohio. His wife Harriet was owned
by a man by the name of Henderson who
lived on Big Creek, Lawrence county, Ark
The names of her children by him, were
Emaline, who belonged to Wm.…
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Annetta Goodwin searching for her father Thomas Jones and several siblings
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
February 1, 1883
DEAR EDITOR :- I wish to see if
my relatives can be found. My
father and mother were named
Thomas and Clarisey Jones. My
mother is dead; my father belonged to
John Ebert; but they were sold to
Mr. Walker. He set them free and
they went to Tennessee and left me
in Vicksburg, Miss., with John
Ebert. I had three brothers that
I…
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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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Bettie Ray searching for her brothers Burr, Charles, and Alford and sister Mariah
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
March 22, 1883
DEAR EDITOR:--I take this means of inquiring for my brothers and a sister from whom I have not heard since the first year of freedom. Our father and mother's names were Elijah and Lucy Patterson. Father died in Paducah, Ky., and mother died sometime since the war, I know not where. The names of my brothers and sister that I wish to inquire for are…
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Brothers Nathan Branch and Lee Branch reunited after 66 years
The Chicago Weekly Tribune (Chicago, IL)
July 14, 1899
FORMER SLAVE BROTHERS MEET
Nathan Branch of Evanston Finds by
Chance Lee, from Whom He Was
Parted 66 Years Ago.
After a separation of sixty-six years Nathan
Branch, the oldest colored man in
Evanston, will meet his brother Lee of
Macon, Ga. The last sight they had of each
other was in an auctioneer’s room on a
plantation in…
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Celia Johnson searching for her son Toney Roberts (formerly Toney Johnson)
The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
April 15, 1886
MR. EDITOR - I wish to inquire for my son, who left me in Sslma, Ala., in 1873. His name is Toney Roberts. He at one time went by the name of Toney Johnson, but when he came to live with me after the emancipation, I informed him that his father was named Toney Roberts. I suppose he goes by the name of Roberts now. After he came to me from Louisiana…
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Ed Kneeright searching for his grandmother Lucy Walter and her children Rachel, Cherry, and Sam Walter
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
May 17, 1883
MR. EDITOR:--I desire to inquire
for my grandmother and children.
We belonged to Mrs. Peggy Achili.
She lived in South Carolina, Wins-
borough [Winsborough] county; my mother died
there when I was three weeks old.
Mrs. Achilli moved us to Missis-
sippi [Mississippi], and stopped in Yallabusha
county. I was there until I was 12…
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Eliza Gedding (formerly Eliza Fry) searching for her daughter Sarah Francis Brown
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
April 24, 1884
MR. EDITOR––Allow me to in-
quire [inquire] for a relative of mine, it is my
child; she was sold from me when
about 10 years old. We were form-
erly [formerly] servants of Elizabeth Hoflers.
Her name was Sarah Francis
Brown. My name at that time was
Eliza Fry. She was carried South
by a man named McGill, and was
sold to a man in…
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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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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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G. V. Medlock searching for his grandfather Daniel, grandmother Betsy as well as several aunts and uncles
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 7, 1883
DEAR EDITOR ---- I wish to inquire for my kin people, those whom I know anything about, and whom I have never seen since I was about five or six years old. I left them about Dec. 28th, 1865, in Limestone county, Texas, on the Navasota, near Springfield. My people, all belonged to the Strouds. Grandfather was Daniel --- I suppose since freedom…
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Geo. Gardiner searching for his father Jacob Gardiner
The Appeal (Chicago, IL)
February 14, 1891
JACOB GARDINER––Geo. Gardiner desires in-
formation [information] in regard to his father Jacob Gardiner
who was a slave belonging to Thomas G. Gardiner,
Grimwell Co., Ky., was freed in 1846, went to
Hanover, Ind., near Madison, where he worked for
Dr. Hayes. He carried with him his wife and one
daughter named Martha Elizabeth Gardiner.…
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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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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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Harrison Bradley and his wife reunite after 21 years and remarry
The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH)
August 17, 1880
AFTER MANY YEARS.
Reunion of a Colored Man and His Wife,
Who Were Separated During the Days
of Slavery.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.
YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO, August 16.—In the
year 1857, when the baneful curse of slavery
existed in the South, the marrying and intermarriyngof
colored people were not recognized
by the forms…
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Hazel Phillip seeking information about her sister Emma Thompson
The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)
April 7, 1881
INFORMATION WANTED OF MY SIS-
ter, Emma Thompson. She was freed
by John T. Johntson, and went to Cincinnati,
carrying with her two children, Frankie
and Silvia ; also Cornelius Phillips (or John-
ston). Any information will be gratefully
received. HAZEL PHILLIP.
Madison Station, Miss.
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Henry Green, Sr. searching for his son William Green
New National Era (Washington, DC)
September 29, 1870
Henry Green, Sr., of Charleston, S. C., re-
quests information concerning his son, William
Green. who left Beaufort, S. C. for New York,
in 1865. with a United States army officer.
When last heard from, in 1868, was in New
York city with Capt. Young, then chief of De-
tective Police. Any information may be for-
warded to the Cashier of…
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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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J. T. Henry seeking information about his uncle Andy Halebrooks
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
October 28, 1886
MR. EDITOR--I wish to inquire
the whereabouts of my uncle, Andy Halebrooks. He used to belong to
a man by the name of Mayberry;
he had a brother named Anderson
who was my father; also two other
brothers, George and William, and
two sisters, Mary and Martha, be-
longing [belonging] to James Wardlaw, all
living in Walker county, Ga.,…
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Jack Soules searching for his family including parents Smithee and Charles Soules
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
July 6, 1882
MR. EDITOR--I wish to inquire for my kin people. Mother's name is Smithie Soules; father's, Charles Soules; oldest brother, Nuppus; oldest sister, Inez. I had brothers Wirt, Ike and George. At 18 years of age I came with James Grace to Jackson county, Texas, and was sold to B. Wildy and remained with him until emancipation. Address me at…
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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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Jane searching for her sister Lydia Calcoat and several female relatives
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
December 6, 1883
MR. EDITOR—My sister belonged
to Willis Calcoat; her name is
Lydia Calcoat; she was sent to
Cincinnati, Ohio, and set free there,
about 30 years ago. Our mother
was Sallie Smith; my oldest sisters
were Celia and Ann Smith; the
next oldest sister was Eveline; my
sister had a playmate named Clara
Ann. Lee Calcoat carried her to…
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