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Found refers to ads that announce a person has been found. These ads often describe the search and include details about the reunion or upcoming reunion. The ads identified by this tag often detail years’ long searches and testify to the persistent desire of formerly enslaved people to reconnect with family and loved ones.
George Harris and Mary J. Brooks reunite and remarry after 45 years
San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA)
July 23, 1904
FORMER SLAVES
JOIN FORTUNES
After Separation of Forty-
Five Years They Meet by
Chance at Fresno and Wed
BOTH MARRIED BEFORE
Each Had Lost a Loved One
and They Quickly Decide
to Finish Life Together
Special Dispatch to The Call.
FRESNO, July 22.---After a separa-
tion [separation] of forty-five years George Harris
and Mary J.…
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George Thompson finds his first wife after 46 years
Boston Post (Boston, MA)
February 22, 1876
---George Thompson is a negro of Newport, 81 years of age, who escaped from slavery at Freder-ick, Md., forty-six years ago, leaving a wife and family, and who has just heard from his wife, whom he had given up for dead, having been unable to hear from her in years past. Since his flight to the North he has married, but his second wife and four…
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George W. Moveety finds his family
The Chicago Weekly Tribune (Chicago, IL)
November 17, 1886
After Thirty-three Years. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov 15--An incident transpired here today singularly illustrative of the infamies of the late system of negro slavery in the United States, and of the unholy rebellion that led to its overthrow. George W. Moveety, a respected colored man of our city, was born a slave in Southampton County, Virginia, and…
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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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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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Henry Anderson found his friends and family
The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)
April 23, 1896
Found His Relatives.
Mineola, Tex., Special.
Henry Anderson now living in Tex-
as an ex-slave of Somerset, Md., found
his long lost friends and relatives
through advertising in The Freeman.
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Henry Tolliver finds his father Alfred Tolliver
Iowa State Bystander (Des Moines, IA)
August 7, 1903
EDITORIALS.
REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE
Henry Tolliver, a leading citi-
zen [citizen], living at 1413 Fremont street
is about to start on a trip to
Leavenworth, Kans., to visit his
aged father, whom he has not
seen since he was sold on the
slave block over a half century
ago, at the age of 9 years. The
father is a man of remarkable age…
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Henry Wilson reunited with his sister after 39 years
The Jacksonville Daily Journal (Jacksonville, IL)
November 4, 1903
FINDS SISTER AFTER YEARS.
To meet a sister after a separation of thirty-nine years is the recent experience of Henry Wilson, the colored butler who has been at the executive mansion through the administrations of Governors Ogles-by, Altgeld, Tanner and Yates. Wilson was born a slave in Missouri in 1855 and was held with his mother for more than…
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Hiram Jefferson reunited with son Thomas after 30 years
Daily State Gazette (Green Bay, WI)
November 15, 1893
After thirty years' separation Hiram
Jefferson and his son Thomas are reunited
in Janesville. The father became separ-
ated [separated] from his family just after the capture
of Fort Donelson, he being a slave on a
plantation near the fort.
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Jack Corkley finds his mother after 40 years
The Cincinnati Daily Star (Cincinnati, OH)
January 23, 1879
Special to the Star.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 23.---Jack Corkley, col-ored porter of the Short-line, has returned from Louisiana, where, after an separa-tion of forty years, he found his mother. She was sold as a slave when Corkley was a year old.
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James Dogan found his first wife and his family
Reading Times and Dispatch (Reading, PA)
July 26, 1871
POTTSTOWN has an Enoch Arden in the
shape of a colored man named James Dogan,
who was a slave prior to the rebellion, and,
escaping into the Union lines, afterwards be-
came [became] a soldier and fought all through the
war. He became separated from his family,
and not hearing from them for several years,
subsequently married again.…
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Jeff Frierson and Mary Burt reunited and remarried after 44-year separation
The Nashville American (Nashville, TN)
September 25, 1903
AFTER FORTY-FOUR YEARS
Jeff Frierson and Mary Burt Are Reunited
in Marriage.
Special Dispatch to The American.
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 24. --
A somewhat romantic marriage occurred
in colored circles last night. The
facts about it are these: Before the
Civil War, and in slave times, Jeff
Frierson, a slave belonging to the…
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Jo Hill replying to their mother Betsy Hill and sisters Margaret and Fanny Hill
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
October 27, 1887
MR. EDITOR-- I have just learned that four years ago a notice appeared in your paper inquiring the whereabouts of Jo Hill, colored, signed Betsy Hill, Margaret Hill, Fanny Hill. I am the said Jo Hill. Betsy was my mother, the other two my sisters. I am here, and own a good plantation, and am anxious to learn their address, which appeared in your…
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John Easton found his mother after decades of searching
The Sun (New York, NY)
July 3, 1892
AFTER YEARS OF SEARCH.
A Former Slave Finds His Mother, and Proves His Identity by a Strange Mark.
From the Indianapolis Sentinel.
John Easton, a colored fireman at the Nordyke-Marmon Works, has been for more than twenty years trying to find his mother, and about two weeks ago got traces of her whereabouts. They were separated when he was 7…
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John H. Coppage found his long lost brother
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
May 15, 1884
MR. EDITOR-I am under so many kind obligations to you for your trouble and my joy at finding my long lost brother. He has addressed me, and is in Texas. He read his name and my address. God bless the labors of your paper. JOHN H. COPPAGE. Tullahoma, Tenn.
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John Jones finds his mother, Parthenia Jones, after more than a 30-year separation
The Sun (New York, NY)
February 23, 1894
FOUND HIS SLAVE MOTHER.
John Jones's Search of Many Years Seems to Have Met With Success.
John Jones, the colored man whorecently
sought the aid of the New York police in find-
ing his mother, Parthenia Jones, from whom
he was separated during the early days of the
war, has been notified of the success of the
search.The story he told was…
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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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John Williams reunited with his mother Harriet Blackwell after 32 years
Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, NC)
December 31, 1892
FOUND HIS MOTHER
John Williams Visits His Mother
After an Absence of 32 Years.
The Knoxville Tribune of yesterday
contains a long account (which was
printed as original in the Gazette this
morning) of the re-union of a mother
and son, who had not seen each other
for thirty-two years. The people were
colored, the mother's name being…
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L. H. Horn announcing that the people Henry Smith inquires for are in Grimes County, TX
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
December 16, 1880
DEAR EDITOR -- The people inquired
for by Bro. Henry Smith are
found, as I know them very well.
Fannie and Julian are dead.
Charles is living in Grimes county,
Texas. Anderson is his P. O.
address. I am yours in Christ,
L. H. HORN
Cold Springs, Texas, Nov. 12th, 1880
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Lee Barton reunited with his wife after 38 years
Eufala Daily Times (Eufala, AL)
May 10, 1891
AFTER MANY YEARS.
AFFECTING MEETING OF TWO SISTERS.
Special Telegram to the Inter Ocean.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Nov. 19.--Forty
years ago Julia and Emeline, two sisters,
were slaves upon the plantation of a master
by the name of Hall, in Kentucky. Emeline
left her sister one night, and with a party of
fugitives crossed the Ohio…
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Letitia Rodgers replying to brother-in-law Rev. James Kellogg
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
March 11, 1880
DEAR EDITOR-- I wish to inquire for the connections of the Rodgers family. My name is Letitia Rodgers. I came from Virginia in 1845. I had two brothers, Dennis and StephenBurg. I left them in Virginia; Dennis in Rye Valley, Marrian Smith county. Some time since I saw in an issue of the SOUTHWESTERN, the name of one James Kellogg, supposed to be…
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Levi Richardson reunited with his sister
Washington Times (Washington, DC)
June 19, 1904
AUCTION SLAVES REUNITED.
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., June 18-
Having been torn from each other on
the auction block, Levi Richardson, who
is at the point of death at his home at
Mainsville. this county. saw his sister.
Mrs. Clara Watters, of Pittsburg, yes-
terday for the first time since they
were slaves in Virginia before the war.
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Lucy A. Johnson responding to Eliza Husher (formerly Eliza Clark)
The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)
July 16, 1892
I would like to know the whereabouts of Mrs.
Eliza Clark, formerly Mrs. Eliza Husher. My
history is a peculiar one. I saw in The Freeman
that Mrs. Eliza Husher wanted to know the
whereabouts of her sister, Mrs. Sallie Clark
and her brothers Tip, Tobe and the rest of her
brothers. Sister Sallie Clark is my grand-mother
and I, Lucy…
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Margaret Young reunited with her son Dowen Young
Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)
January 1, 1898
FINDS LONG LOST SON
DOWEN YOUNG MEETS HIS MOTHER AFTER 36 YEARS
A Mother Sold and Separated From her Family in 1861, Found and Presented to her Son as a Christmas gift in 1897.
The happiest Christmas in all the great city of Chicago was, at the modest home of Dowen Young, No. 3142 Fifth avenue. It was a reunion of a mother and son torn apart…
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