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Esther searching for her son Edgar
The Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)
December 4, 1866
LOST, a small BRIGHT MULATTO
BOY, aged about twelve years, named ED-
GAR [EDGAR]. He was raised by Mrs. James Garnett, of
Caroline county. Any information on him will be
thankfully received by ESTHER, his mother, at
the residence of Mr. John Freelan, corner Fifth
and Cary streets. de 4_2t*
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Elijah Anderson searching for his son Elijah Anderson
The Sun (Baltimore, MD)
January 4, 1872
PERSONAL.
DISAPPEARED, on December 21, ELIJAH AN-
DERSON [ANDERSON], colored, aged 20 years, about 5 feet
high, dark complexion, very stout. Any information
of his whereabouts will be thankfully received by
his distressed parents. ELIJAH ANDERSON, No.
114 Jasper street. j4-3t*
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B. P. Moore, Jr. searching for Rosey Evans
The Sun (Baltimore, MD)
July 25, 1874
INFORMATION WANTED--Of a Mulatto Girl
named ROSEY EVANS, from Harford county,
Md., aged about 11 years. A scar under right eye. Has
been missing since September, 1873. Please address
B. P. MOORE, JR., 47 St. Paul street. jy23-3t*)
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Unnamed mother searching for her son James Sanders
The Sun (Baltimore, MD)
January 22, 1870
PERSONAL.
INFORMATION WANTED--Of JAMES SANDERS,
(colored,) who left Cambridge, or Castle Haven,
Md., on the 18th instant. He is light chestnut color,
tolerably stout, and about six feet high. Informa-
tion [Information] thankfully received by his Mother, at No. 21
SARATOGA ST. 1t.*
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Ralph Thomas searching for Eudora Johnson
Evening Star (Washington, DC)
May 2, 1865
GIRL LOST.--On Friday evening, Eudora John-
son [Johnson], colored, aged 12 years, strayed from her
home, near the Virginia avenue Bridge, (Island.)
and has not been heard of since. She was dressed
in a striped Virginia cloth dress, short sleeves,
soldiers cap and bare-footed. Any information
leading to her recovery will be thankfully…
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Ewd. Dozier searching for Nancy Dolly
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
October 21, 1872
INFORMATION WANTED of the whereabouts of
a Colored Woman named NANCY DOLLY, light
complexion, age about twenty-five years. Left Vuo
de L'Eau, near Norfolk, Va., on the 4th of July, for
Baltimore. Not heard from since. Any information
concerning her whereabouts will greatly oblige
EWD. DOZIER, colored, Norfolk, Va. 021-3t*
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William Johnson searching for Frances Johnson (formerly Frances Archer)
Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA)
October 9, 1848
INFORMATION WANTED.--Left her home
about four weeks since, a colored girl, eight years
of age, well grown, and talks quick, with large eyes;
her right name is FRANCES ARCHER, but she
now answers to the name of Frances Johnson. Any
person knowing of her whereabouts, by giving me
information will be liberally rewarded.
WILLIAM JOHNSON,…
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Unidentified parents searching for son John Granville Brown
The National Gazette and Literary Register (Philadelphia, PA)
July 27, 1833
INFORMATION WANTED of a colored boy, about 4
feet 10 inches high, stout built, and 14 years of age,
named John Granville Brown. He left his parents on
Friday, the 19th inst; and had on an iron gray roundabout
and pantaloons, an old black hat and lace boots. On
the right side of his face below the ear was one large and
several small…
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Unnamed person searching for Elsie R. Johnson
Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)
August 4, 1917
DO YOU KNOW HER?
Five dollars reward for any infor-
mation [information] concerning the whereabouts
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of Elsie R. Johnson, colored, formerly
of Winchester, Mass.
Last heard from, Sept. 11, 1916,
then working for a lady, by the name
of Mrs. A. B. Sloane, 174 W. 79th
Street, New York.
Address Box 73-I-R4,
Washington…
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Parents seeking information about their son Perry Alexandria Wayman
The Sun (Baltimore, MD)
June 25, 1867
ANY INFORMATION will be thankfully received
of PERRY ALEXANDRIA WAYMAN, colored,
who left his home on last Friday morning, about 10
o'clock, by his distressed parents, at No. 247 OR-
LEANS [ORLEANS]
STREET. Nothing has been heard of him
since. He is between 10 and 11 years old, brown
skin, with straight hair, which has been lately cut.…
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Eliza Hammond looking for her daughter Eliza Jane Hammond who wandered off
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
July 30, 1868
LOST.--Wandered from her home, in Anne Arundel
county, near Brooklyn, on the 9th inst., a Colored
Woman named ELIZA JANE HAMMOND. She is
25 years old, a dark mulatto, has her hair cut short
and a scar on the top of her head. She has lost her
mind from an attack of fever, but is entirely harmless.
She is supposed to be somewhere in…
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Mrs Byard seeking information about Robert Byard, believed to be her husband (two ads)
St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT)
November 26, 1898
Information Wanted.
Information is wanted of Robert Byard,
a colored man who enlisted in Company
C, Fourth Massachusetts colored
troops, March 25th, 1865, and was mustered
out August 20, 1865.
At the time of his enlistment Byard
gave his residence as St. Albans, Vt.
An aged colored woman residing at
New Rochelle N. Y.,…
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Elizabeth Butler searching for her mother Anna Brown/Anna Blackwell and three sisters
The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
May 30, 1840
INFORMATION WANTED,
OF ANNA BROWN or ANNA BLACKWELL, or of her
three daughters, NANCY, ELIZA and SUSAN, a
griffe woman who was brought from Virginia by one
Mr. Latham about the year 1830 to the city of New
Orleans, and sold. Any information leading to their
discovery will be most thankfully received, by leaving
their names at this…
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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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H. Kimberly searching for Joseph Nicholson
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
June 25, 1867
PERSONAL.
WANDERED FROM HOME--On last Wednesday,
JOSEPH NICHOLSON, commonly called Big
Joe, a tall Yellow Man, Butcher by trade. Any in-
formation [information] leading to his whereabouts will be thank-
fully [thankfully]
received by H. KIMBERLY, Stalls 17 and 19
Centre Market. je25-2t*++
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Britton Richardson seeking their son Isham Richardson
The Tri-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, NC)
November 26, 1867
INFORMATION WANTED!
MY SON, ISHAM RICHARDSON, AN AL-
BINO [ALBINO]—white skinned, but of negro blood, with
one black spot on his under lip—light eyes,
white, soft woolly hair—unable to see in the
glare of the sun—was taken from me when the
Federal army came through, and is no doubt now
in the North some where. On the tenth day of…
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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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Anna Barnett searching for Jesse Henry Johnson
Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)
May 23, 1891
JESSE HENRY JOHNSON—Is a brown skin youth
with a broad face. He has large ears which stand
off from his head. The first joint of the little
finger of his left hand is off. He was born in
Vicksburg, Miss. He is 18 years oly. He left me
two years ago in Washington County, Miss. Ad-
dres [Addres], Anna Barnett, 3315 Manchester Road, St.…
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A. W. Lanagan searching for John Lanagan and family
The Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)
May 23, 1891
JOHN LANAGAN-Iuformation is wanted of John Lanagan and family. He is of light complexion and had three children when last heard of at Helena. Ark., in 1884. He was cook on a steamboat. Address, A.W. Lanagan, Box 116 Burlington, Kan.
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Melinda Jones searching for her son Johnny Jones
New York Age (New York, NY)
November 30, 1905
INFORMATION WANTED.
Would like to know the whereabouts of
Johnny Jones, also known as John Chap-
man [Chapman]. Born in Manassas, Prince William
county. Virginia. Five feet in height,
large eyes, heavy mustache, scar on side of
face. Absent for more than a year. In-
formation [Information] concerning whereabouts will be
gladly…
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Unidentified parents reunited with their daughter after 20 years
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
July 29, 1875
A TOUCHING SCENE.-The Newtown (Md.)
Gazette says: The steamer Tangier last Satur-
day [Saturday] landed at our wharf a negro woman who
had been sold "way down South" some twenty
years ago. She belonged to the Rush estate,
and her father and mother, whose heads are sil-
vered [silvered] with the frosts of many winters, have re-
mained…
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Austin Marshall searching for his wife Mrs. Elizabeth Marshall and her two children Granson and Jeannette
Leavenworth Daily Conservative (Leavenworth, KS)
March 5, 1863
INFORMATION WANTED.
OF MRS. ELIZABETH MARSHALL (mulatto) from the
Creek Nation. She is about eighteen years old;
has two children--the oldest, a boy named Granson, wil
be three years old next June; the youngest a girl nurs-
ing [nursing] babe, named Jeannette. They made their escape
from Maysville, it is understood, about ten days after…
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Cupid Blue and Kitty Blue searching for their daughter Millie Blue
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
October 26, 1869
PERSONAL.
NOTICE.--Information wanted of MILLIE BLUE,
a very bright Mulatto Girl, 14 years of age, who
left her home in Jessup's Cut, Howard county,
Maryland. She is a well-grown Girl, has large teeth
in front (gap between) and somewhat decayed; also
a full suit of brown hair. It is feared she was en-
ticed [enticed] away by some…
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Mrs. Ella Allison and Mr. Robert Allison searching for family
The Topeka Plaindealer (Topeka, KS)
June 2, 1905
INFORMATION WANTED.
Mrs. Ella Allison, 118 Sycamore
street, Ottawa, Kans., would like to
have any information about her
mother, Mollie Martin, complexion
dark brown, brown eyes, straight
hair; or of her step-father David
Martin, who was born at Smyrna,
Tenn. They were the slaves of
Levi White, and were last heard of
at Kahoka,…
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Charles Stewart searching for two of his sisters Fannie Stewart and Harriet Stewart
Southern Republican (Demopolis, AL)
December 21, 1870
Information Wanted.
Information is wanted as to the
whereabouts of two colored women,
who, when children, were known by
the names Harriet Stewart and
Fannie Stewart, and belonged to Lar-
kin [Larkin] Stewart, who lived about 7 1-2
miles from Greensboro, Alabama, on
Brush Creek. About thirty years ago
they were sold or swapped off to…
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