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William Robinson (formerly William Volantine) searching for his brother Daniel Cromwell (formerly Joshua Volantine)

Liberator (Boston, MA)

March 2, 1849

INFORMATION WANTED. William Volantine, now
named William Robinson, who was once a slave in
Baltimore, and now living in New Bedford, wishes to
know where his brother is, who was a slave in the
same place, but came from Baltimore about three
years since to Philadelphia. His name was Joshua
Volantine, but he received the name of Daniel…

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Joshua Oglesby searching for his son James Oglesby

Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY)

October 7, 1862

INFORMATION WANTED.
JAMES OGLESBY, A FREE COLORED BOY,
about 13 years of age, left his father's residence, on
the corner of Thirteenth and Magazine, in this city,
on Thursday, 2d inst. He is supposed to have followed
one of the divisions of the army. Any information
concerning him will be liberally rewarded if commu-
nicated…

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Robert D. Holmes searching for Jane Wilson

The New York Herald (New York, NY)

February 10, 1865

INFORMATION WANTED--OF JANE WILSON, OF
Morrisania, Westchester county, who is supposed to
have gone to Philadelphia. She has a dark brown complexion,
about five feet five or six inches in height, decayed
teeth, one tooth gone in front upper jaw, dressed in black,
and had a boy fourteen years of age, about same complexion,
with a mark…

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Priscilla Stark (formerly Priscilla Baylor) searching for her kidnapped son.

Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)

August 10, 1864

KIDNAPPED--$20 REWARD--My son,
WILLIAM HENRY BAYLOR, was
kidnapped from the Market House, in Alexan-
dria, on Tuesday morning, the 26th of July.
He is aged about 14 years, is about 5 feet high
and stout; very dark complexion, full mouth
with very short white teeth, and when taken off
had a full suit of hair. He had a scar on his…

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Rev. R. T. Queen searching for information of his sister Margaret Annie Queen

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

July 3, 1890

INFORMATION WANTED--Of my
sister Margaret Annie Queen. Her moth
er's name is Annie Queen. She left Anne
Arundel Co a free girl, about the year
1862 or 1863 to a company a white fam
ily to Providence, R. I., and has not been
heard from since. Any information of
her will be very gladly received by her
brother, Rev. R T. Queen, 23 Bladen…

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Wesley Ann Jones searching for her father Wesley Jones

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 20, 1882

DEAR EDITOR --- I wish to inquire for my father Wesley Jones. He married my mother, whose name was Mary, at Gonzales, Texas. She had gone from this state with her then master Summerfield Fox. After they had been married a short while my mother's master took her and her only child and moved back to Mississippi and left my father behind, he being…

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Perry Wilmer searching for brothers Joe and Sam and sister Maria

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

May 24, 1877

I wish to enquire concerning my
brothers, Joe and Sam and my sister
Maria. Joe belonged to a Mr. Peacock.
The others of us belonged to
John B. Bostic, who brought us from
Baltimore to Houston, Texas, where
I was sold first to John Shackleford
and then to Mr. Craft. Our father
was Perry Wilmer, a free man, and
our mother was…

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Susan Chase searching for her husband James Chase

The Sun (Baltimore, MD)

November 29, 1864

INFORMATION WANTED OF JAMES CHASE,
colored, who left home on the 19th of November
inst. Was last seen going to his work on the wharf.
Any information of him will be thankfully received
by his wife, SUSAN CHASE, 93 Chestnut st. 1t*]

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Henry Jackson searching for his niece Evelina Evans

Frederick Douglass' Paper (Rochester, NY)

June 30, 1854

INFORMATION WANTED.—Evelina Evans,
who resided in New York City in the year
1860, left that city and went to Canada the
same year; since that time also has not been
heard from by her relations. Her husband's
name was James Evans. Address her uncle,
Henry Jackson, Evansville, Indiana.
Papers friendly to the cause of Humanity,
please…

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Margaretta Ann Simpson looking for her father and mother William and Mary Ann Simpson

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

July 6, 1872

Information Wanted.

INFORMATION wanted of my father and
mother, William and Mary Ann Simpson.
When last heard from they were living in
New York City. I was brought into New
Jersey by a Mr. Wright about seventeen
years ago. My father worked in Mr. James
Tarrent's Drug Store on the corner of Green
and Warren Streets.
I am living with…

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Sarah Serrington searching for son Wm. B. F. Serrington

Globe (New York, NY)

June 16, 1883

INFORMATION WANTED of the whereabouts of my only son, Wm B.F. Serrington, who joined the 54th Massachusetts regiment, and when last heard of was in Orangeburg, S.C. Any information concerning him will be thankfully received by his aged mother SARAH SERRINGTON, 13 Chapel Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Unnamed person searching for Fanny Wintersmith

The Chicago Weekly Tribune (Chicago, IL)

August 16, 1864

WANTED--Information wanted
of the whereabouts of a colored woman named
FANNY WINTERSMITH, who came from New York
to Chicago in October or November last with her two
children, whom she left here, on Jackson street (if the
advertiser remembers right), and returned to New
York. If the persons with whom she left her children
(or any one…

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Winnie Linn searching for her husband Davy Linn

The Chicago Weekly Tribune (Chicago, IL)

August 16, 1864

WANTED---Information of
DAVY LINN (colored), formerly of Chicago,
and who left here about three years since with an Illinois
regiment, number not known. Any information
concerning him will be thankfully received by
his wife WINNIE LINN, 235 Monroe st., Chicago.
ault-o097 2t

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Richard Gray seeking information about Moses Lumly and Polly Noel

The Colored Tennessean (Nashville, TN)

July 18, 1866

Information Wanted.
Of Moses Lumly, who was raised
near Oxford, N.C., by Dr. John
Hicks, and sold to Wm. Lumly of
Rome, Ga., at which place he was liv-
ing when Sherman's army reached
there in the Spring of 1864. Also, of
Polly Noel, who lived in Vicksburg,
Miss., up to the time the law was
passed in that State prohibiting…

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David Hadley seeking information of Melissa Flowers on behalf of her uncle Sanders Flowers

The Colored Tenessean (Nashville, TN)

March 31, 1866

Information Wanted.
Information wanted of the where-
abouts of Melissa Flowers, (a young
lady of color) who left Clarksville, Tenn.,
some time in July last, and went to Nash-
ville, Tenn. Her uncle Sanders Flowers,
who now resides in Indiana, desires said
information. Any information of the
whereabouts of the above mentioned lady…

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Thompson Family searching for Henry Thompson

Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)

July 8, 1854

INFORMATION is wanted concerning the
whereabouts of HENRY THOMPSON, a
coloured man, who visited Detroit in February
last, and has not since been heard of by his family,
to whom it is a source of great solicitude. Such
information will be thankfully received at this
office.
Toronto, July 7, 1854. 16

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John and Emaline Hall searching for her brother William Buck

Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)

September 23, 1854

Information Wanted.
THE Subscriber, with his wife, Mrs. Emaline
Hall, desires to hear from her brother,
WILLIAM BUCK, from near Clarksville
Tennessee. It is known that he was recently in
the State of Indiana, on this way to Canada
West, and it is presumed that he has reached the
Province. Any information from him will be
thankfully…

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Sarah Jackson searching for her husband Jacob Jackson

Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)

November 18, 1854

Information Wanted.
INFORMATION is wanted of the whereabouts
of JACOB JACKSON, a colored
man, who left Philadelphia about nine weeks
ago, intending to go to to Canada, in search of
his brother RICHARD. It is supposed that he
visited Toronto.
Any information concerning him will be thankfully
received by his wife.
SARAH JACKSON,
35 …

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Robert Phillips searching for Mrs. Sidney Jackson

Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)

December 23, 1854

Imformation Wanted
OF MRS. SIDNEY JACKSON, who left the
State of Pennsylvania, about the time that the
Fugitive Slave Law was passed, and who came
to Canada, leaving some property in the above-named
State. If she will call on or communicate
by letter with Robert Phillips, Centre St.,
Toronto, she will hear news of much…

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William Rawlin searching for William Turner

Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY)

July 15, 1862

INFORMATION WANTED
OF WILLIAM TURNER, (colored.) He came from
Toronto, C. W., to this city, about four months ago,
since which time his family have not heard from him. He
is supposed to be on some boat plying between this city
and one of the upper lake ports Any information ad-
dressed [addressed] to "WILLIAM RAWLIN, Toronto, C. W.,…

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Charley Moore seeking his mother Cely Moore, father William Moore, and siblings Julia, Amsley, and Billy Moore

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

March 8, 1888

DEAR EDITOR—I desire to find my relatives. My father was William Moore, and mother Cely Moore; sister Julia Moore; brothers Amsley Moore and Billy Moore; aunt named Hester. They used to live in Baltimore, Md. Father was a slave belonging to John Squater. Mother was free. Last time I saw her was in Washington, D. C., during the war. I was then a…

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Tilda Hicks searching for her father George Hicks

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 5, 1880

MR. EDITOR-- I wish to inquire for my father, George Hicks, who lived in Franklin, Franklin Co., Va. I was 11 years old when he left there in 1860. I belonged to Henry Smith Woody. Mother's name was Sallie. She had a husband named Dick. Mother was separated from father because he was free. Uncles' names were Ben and Gabe Wade. Grandmother's name…

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Mrs. Mary Jane Randolph searching for her mother Mary Ann McMullen, father Rich, and siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 28, 1888

MR. EDITOR—My father's name was Rich, but was called Bob. He was a free colored man. My mother's name was Mary Ann McMailen. There were seven children of us: Mary Jane, General, Louisa, Millie, Andrew, Lucinda and Sammie. I think we were separated from mother and father at Alexandria, La., bought by a man named Dempsey, who was killed shortly…

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Jack McReynolds searching for his uncle Bill Orterson

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 28, 1880

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my uncle, Bill Orterson. Dicy McReynolds was my mother's name. My father was Jack McReynolds. Bill Orterson is my mother's brother. I never saw him, though I heard that he purchased his liberty before the war. A son of uncle Bill's was in Jefferson, Texas, since the war, in search of his father's brother, Dicy…

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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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