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Mary Ann Freeman searching for her mother Leath, stepfather Abram Fruit, and siblings
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 17, 1880
DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my people. I left my motherwhen I was in Randolph county,North Carolina. I was nine years old, and belonged to William Mc-Masters [McMasters]. He sold me to HiramYork, three miles from his place,and Hiram York sold me and myaunt Rena to Bill Monday, and hebrought me to Richmond, Virginia,and I was brought to…
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George Reed searching for his daughter Kittie
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 3, 1880
DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire as to the whereabouts of my daughter Kittie, whom I left with her mother, Hettie, in Tallahatchie Co., Mississippi, three miles from Oakville in 1850. Kitty was the only child when I left there. I came away with Nathan Reed. If she is living she will be 31 years of age this coming August. I left them with one Moses…
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Milton Douglas reuniting with his wife
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
September 7, 1882
We find this paragraph in the Charleston Advocate: Milton Douglas, an Edgefield (S. O.) negro, was married while a slave in 1859 to a colored girl in that county. After three months of wedded life he was sold and sent West. His wife married again, her second husband dying a few months ago. Milton, who had not been heard from since 1859 returned…
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Mary Goodloe searching for her stepfather Daniel Battle and mother Eliza Battle
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
July 18, 1889
Mr, Editor: I want to f[undecipherable] people. My stepfather is [undecipherable] Daniel Battle, a minister of t[undecipherable] E. Church, my mother is [undecipherable] Eliza Battle. I have two si[undecipherable] one is named Christy Ann [undecipherable] and the other is named [undecipherable] Battle. I have three bro[undecipherable] the oldest…
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Menerca Broomfield searching for Stephen Anderson and Mary Broomfield
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
September 13, 1888
DEAR EDITOR—I want to find Stephen Anderson and his wife. She used to belong to Broomfield. Her name was Mary Broomfield. She was generally called Burnie. She had Alfred Broomfield for a husband first, and had two children, Alexander Brownlow and Julian. I want to find also, my half brother Adams. His mother was Ruthy McKinney. She belonged to…
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Catherine Robinson (formerly Catherine Roberts) searching for her daughter Harriett Roberts
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
October 14, 1880
DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for my daughter. Her name was Harriett Roberts. She belonged to Rev. Lewis Roberts, who lived on Wolf River, 25 miles from Memphis, Tenn. My husband was named Isaac Roberts. I was sold to the Chickasaw Indians. They were then moving to Arkansas. At the time they bought me, when I left my daughter, she was only 5…
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Charles Edward Hudson searching for his father Richard Hudson
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
November 14, 1889
Mr. Editor : Please inquire for my people. My name is Edward Hudson. I was born in Russell county, Ala., in 1855, but was raised in Columbus, Ga. My mother, aunt and two uncles, belonged to a family named Hooper, who formerly lived in Crawford, Ala., and removed to Opelika. My father, Richard Hudson, emigrated from Columbus, Ga., to Liberia,…
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Caroline Hogan (formerly Caroline Brown) seeking her father Isaac Jamison, mother Peggy Brown, and siblings
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
December 8, 1881
DEAR EDITOR—I was raised in Albermarle county, Virginia, and I belonged to Clifton Brown, a Methodist preacher. He had three sons Taze, Thomas and William. William was the youngest. He had two daughters, Virginia and Susan Brown. Virginia married George Terril. My old boss gave me to his daughter Virginia when she married, and her husband sold me…
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Naro Gillespie searching for their siblings, including their sister Mary Ann and father Charles Walker
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
October 20, 1881
DEAR EDITOR— I wish to enquire for my people, mother. father, sisters and brothers. Mother was married twice. By her first husband William Price she had four children. Her name is Hannah Price. The name of the four children are Sarah, Mary Ann, William and Harriet. Harriet is dead and left seven children. I knew three of them, Levi, Bifle, Jerry…
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Mrs. Rebecca Hunter searching for her son Adolph Jackson
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
September 5, 1889
Dear Editor: I wish to inquire for my son, Adolph Jackson. He left here in 1881, and the last I heard of him he was in San Antonio. He is my only son. His sister's name is Sarelda Perry. I am a lone widow, and I am getting old. When he left I was widow Butler, and now I am widow Hunter. I have his daughter, Isabella Jackson. Any information will…
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Mary J. Richmond searching for her son Peter Moore Jr
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
August 9, 1888
DEAR EDITOR—I wish to find my son who left me the third year after surrender. He went from Tehula, Miss., to Alabama; to what part I cannot say. I used to belong to Jeff Poole. My son had, when he left, five sisters, viz: Louisiana, Masourria, Sophronia, Mary and Laura, and four brothers, viz: Tom Fletcher, Sam Moore and Hamilton Wright. His…
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Alice Dorden (formerly Edna Thompson) seeking her sister Melvina Adline
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
July 26, 1888
DEAR EDITOR— I want to inquire for my sister Melvina Adline. Our mother's name is Channia Mills and my name is Edna Thompson; my sister Melvina Adline. She has a son by the name of Green, daughter named Mattie, and her husband named Kyler Reed; he was a local preacher. I left her at Chechebo, Ala., 1868. I parted at Mick Hartly ferry. My name is…
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Add. Patterson searching for his father Evison Rundells
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
July 1, 1880
I left my father when I was a small boy near Columbia, Avil District, South Carolina, and was brought to Arkansas by James Patterson. My mother's name is Amelia; step-father's was Boson William; mine is Add. Patterson. My father, Evis n Rundells, belonged to Larkin Rundells, who was his father. I am the only son father had at the time I left him.…
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Lydia Wilkins (formerly Lydia Gordon) searching for her mother Rachel Gordon, father Harrison Carter, step-father, and siblings
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
May 27, 1880
DEAR EDITOR—I wish to inquire for mother, father, brothers and sisters. Mother's name was Rachel Gorden; sister's, Susan Gorden; brother's, Anderson Gorden; own father's, Harrison Carter; stepfather's, Luke Gorden. We all belonged to Tom and Sallie Gorden, in Nansemond county, Virginia My name at that time was Lydia Gordon. Address me at Vaiden,…
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Neptune Randolph searching for his father Matthew Randolph
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
December 9, 1880
DEAR EDITOR--I desire to inquire for my father. I left him in Texas in 1853. He belonged to Mr. Randolph Cox, and I to Mr. W. V. Rhodes. Donnet Rhodes brought mother and I to Louisiana. My father's name is Matthew Randolph but they called him Cox; mother was Angeline Randolph, but she is married to Ben Crockett. I formerly lived in Matagerda Co.,…
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Jessie Mitchell searching for their father Ben Mitchell (or Ben Dotson), step-mother Patience Burton, and siblings Nancy, Tom Burton and Howard Burton
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
May 2, 1888
MR. EDITOR: I want to find my people: Father's name was Ben Mitchell or Ben Dotson, used to belong to Mr. Adam Richmond My mother died when I was so young that I don't remember her. Father then married again; his wife's name was Patience. She belonged to one Frank Burton. There were two children by my mother, myself (Jesse) and Sister Nancy and two…
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Caroline Hogan (formerly Caroline Brown) looking for her father Isaac Jimerson, her mother Peggy Brown, and her siblings
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
July 14, 1881
DEAR EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my people. I was raised in Albermarle county, Virginia. I belonged to Clifton Brown, a Methodist preacher. After one of the daughters married a Mr. Teril my old boss gave me to them. So Teril, by way of debt, sold me to a speculator in Charlottesville, Va. I was sold again and brought to Mississippi, where I…
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V. L. Burril searching for their father Neale Peachlon
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
July 12, 1888
DEAR EDITOR— I wish to find my father. His name was Neale Peachlon. I have not seen him since 1868. Mother died when I was twelve years old. Father married again, and gave me to my grandmother in 1859. He moved to Fort Smith, Ark. He took my two brothers with him. Address V. L. Burril, Brookston, Tex.
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C. L. Crump searching for his grandparent's relative
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 30, 1881
Mr. Editor--By reading the SOUTHWESTERN some time in April, I saw an inquiry of a woman who said she was moved by John P. Crump, who lived within fifteen miles of Richmond, Virginia. That was my old master's name; all of my kin people came from that way somewhere. It may be some of my grandmother's or grandfather's people. My grandfather was…
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Roberta Ann Witherspoon seeking her father Clem Bennett
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
May 31, 1888
MR. EDITOR—I wish to inquire through your columns for my father, whose name was Clem Bennett. He was taken to some part of Texas by Mr. Brisco Bennett and Wm. Burnett, along with Aunt Minerva, Uncle Alex Richard and cousin Charles Burnett, from Multan, Lowndes county, Miss., just before the war. My mother is Martha Shirley; she had three…
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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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Alfred Yancey searching for his relatives, including his wife Phoebe Chandler
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
January 15, 1880
DEAR EDITOR—I wish to make
an effort, through your columns, to
find my relatives from whom I have
been separated many long years.
My name is Alfred; I was owned
by Lawyer Abraham Venable,
Granville Co., North Carolina, 15
miles from Oxford, the county seat.
My mother’s name was Pinkey;
brothers’, Monroe, Madison, Wil-
liam [William],…
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America Camack searching for her daughter Ellen Brince and siblings Harriet, Mariah, and Harrison
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
February 26, 1880
MR. EDITOR— I desire information of my daughter, two sisters and one brother. My daughter's name was Ellen Brince; sisters' Harriet and Mariah; brother's, Harrison. They all belonged to Samual Brince. I left my people in Barren Co., Kentucky, near Glasco, and have not heard from them since. I was brought to Mississippi a year before the war by Si…
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Rev. J. C. Skinner searching for his brother Edward Avington
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
November 20, 1879
MR. EDITOR— I wish to inquire for my brother, whom I last saw in Georgetown, D.C., Oct. 12, 1860, and have heard of him through letters, but not since 1875. I know not whether he is dead or alive. Mother's name is Emmaline Grey. her first husband's name was Richard Skinner. She is yet alive, as is also her last husband, Jordan Grey. Sister…
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