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- Tags: enslaver looking for former slave
Enslaver looking for former slave tag identifies ads in which the person placing the ad is identified as a former enslaver who is searching for a person they used to enslave.
Mrs. Claudie L. Baskett searching for Mrs. Mary Matilda Isson
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
November 1, 1888
Dear Editor: Mr. Claudie L. Baskett, of Greenwood, Miss., writes asking me to request some of the colored ministers of New Orleans, to inquire from their pulpits, for Mrs. Mary Matilda Isson, one of our old family servants who lives or did live in your city. This is the matter mentioned when meeting you Monday, and which you kindly consented to…
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Former enslaver W. C. Templeton searching for James and Rebecca Harris
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
May 23, 1889
Mr. W. C. Templeton, of 75 Danforth avenue, Jersey City, N. J., is anxious to learn the whereabouts of James and Rachel Harris, who for many years before the war belonged to himself and wife. He heard several years ago that they were living in St. Louis, but he was not then able to look them up. If living, he says, his old slaves are quite…
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Avant Silvy searching for Julien Herynes
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
February 14, 1889
MR. EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my friend Julien Herynes, she is living near by me now; her father's name is Stephen Day he belonged to Ambrose Day, her mother's name is Emmely, she belonged to Bedford Rolling. All of them were living in Kentucky, in Bedford county, in 1843. Her two oldest sisters was sold to a speculator. She was sold after…
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Eli Newsom searching for Jim Smith
The National Tribune (Washington, DC)
October 26, 1905
ADDRESSES WANTED.
WANTED—Address of Jim Smith, body servant
of Andrew Smith, Second Lieutenant, Co. H, 3d
Ark.; afterwards 56th U. S. C. T. "Important." Ad-
dress Eli Newsom, Soldiers' Home, Los Angeles, Cal.
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Executors of estate found Robert Busby, "ex-slave," and gave him an inheritance
The Broad Ax (Chicago, IL)
October 9, 1897
AGED EX-SLAVE.
Left a Fortune of $50,000 by His
Former Master.
Benton Harbor, Mich., Sept 29.
--Robert Busby, an old ex-slave,
was today advised by a Charleston
(S. C.) lawyer that his former master,
Bradford North, who died four
years ago, has left him an inheritance
of $50,000. The old planter
left an immense estate, and…
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Mrs. L. M. Spencer (white) searching for Mrs. Katie Williams
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA)
October 18, 1889
Information Wanted.
The Chief of Police received a letter
from Mrs. L. M. Spencer of Kiowa,
Barber county, Kan., yesterday, ask-
ing [asking] for information as to the where-
abouts [whereabouts] of Katie Williams (colored),
who in April, 1888, was in this city.
Mrs. Spencer is very anxious to hear
from Mrs. Williams, as the latter…
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Mrs. N. B. Burrow searching for Reuben Reddick Barrow
The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)
April 1, 1893
I would like know the whereabouts of one
Reuben Reddick Barrow, who was the body
servant of Gen'l N. B. Burrow in the Mexican
war. When last heard of he was living in
Guthrie, Okla. His wife was named Betsey.
He has two cousins in Red Ford, Ark., by the
names of Tennessee and Maria Dixon, and two
cousins living in Little Rock, Ark. …
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A. B. Carter searching for his former slave, Benjamin Harris
Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)
December 10, 1900
INFORMATION WANTED. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 4 To the Editor of the Alexandria Gazette: My Dear Sir: - I am very anxious to find out the whereabouts of Benjamin Harris, colored. Benjamin was a true and faithful servant of mine prior to the war between the States and my most trusted friend during the four years of war. He was with me on the battlefield,…
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T. C. Yates searching for Green, who served him during the war
The National Tribune (Washington, DC)
September 29, 1910
T.C. Yates, Lieutenant, 4th Indp't Com-
pany, Feesburg, Ohio, would like informa-
tion of a colored man named Green, who
served him during the war, and whom he
last saw acting as waiter in the Broadway
Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1865.
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