Dan Green searching family members including Lucretia Green and Susan Cox

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 9, 1879

DEAR EDITOR -- Please inquire in your next for Lucretia Green, sister Susan Cox, and Maria Braxton; also for uncle Washington Henry Cox. If found please write to me at Galveston, Texas, in care of Rev. P. Douglass. DAN GREEN.

Miss P. L. Foster seeking her father's family including father Joe Foster

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 13, 1881

DEAR EDITOR -- I wish to inquire for my father's people. He belonged to the Dewalt family in Newberry district, South Carolina, and was named Joe Foster. He left his home with nine children and a wife. Mother was Lydia and had six daughters and three sons -- Manda, Sarah, Victoria, Emeline, Pitcy, Ellen, Joseph, Paul and Albert. We left here in…

Louisa Burton searching for her extended family

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 20, 1882

MR. EDITOR--I wish to inquire for my mother's people. Her name was Emsie Smith. she was sold from Lexington, Kentucky, when very small girl, aged 10 or 12 years I heard that uncle John Smith lived in St. Louis, Missouri; and uncle Fred Smith was in Baltimore with a doctor, and mother was in Louisiana. I also desire to hear from father's people. He…

Walter Higgins searching for his father's family

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 3, 1882

DEAR EDITOR -- I wish to inquire for my father's people. His father was Draper, mother Eliza; their five children were Rafe, John, Louis, Martha and Rhonda. They belonged to Jim Spermon, Newberry district, South Carolina. The inquires are Walter and Ransom Higgins, children of Harry Spermon. Address me at Masbulaville, Miss. WALTER HIGGINS

Rev. Moses P. Franklin, Jr. searching for his father's family

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 10, 1882

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my father's kin people. Grandfather was Thomas Franklin, and he died belonging to Dr. James, of Farquhar county, Virginia, below Warrenton Courthouse. His wife, Rachel, belonged to the same man. His oldest child was Williams; the next was Emperor. Sister Jane married a Mr. Jackson. John, Fanny, Harrison, Thomas,…

Rev. Geo. A. Payne searching for his family including father Walter and mother Sarah

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 10, 1882

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to inquire for my relatives, father, mother, sisters, brother, uncles, and grandmother. We lived in Alabama and belonged to the same owner with the exception of grandmother and uncle. I do not remember the county, but town was Claiborne. Our owner, Samuel Cobbs, was shot by young Thomas Blaise, as he was on the way to the…

Isaac Rayford, Jr. (formerly Isaac Favers) seeking information about his father Isaac Favers, uncles and aunts

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 1, 1886

MR. EDITOR ---- My grandfather and grandmother and their children in slavery time belonged to a Mr. John Finley, in Arkansas, and my father belonged to Henry Favers; his name was then Isaac Favers but is now Isaac Rayford. He had brothers by the nome of Bossen, Joe and Daniel Benjamin Finley; his sisters were Jane, Lurenia and Missouri. If…

D. J. Price seeking information about his father, William Price's family

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

May 6, 1886

MR. EDITOR-- Please allow me
space in your consolating paper
once more to inquire for the
whereabouts of my father's relatives,
whom he left in Virginia. He said
he left them when quite young,
about 16 years old I suppose; he
left his people in Richmond, Va.;
was sold to traders and brought
to New Orleans, La., and sold to a
man by the…

Caleb Brown searching for his family including mother Millie

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

May 20, 1886

MR. EDITOR - I wish to try and find out, through your paper, if there is any of my family living. They lived near Livingston, Sumpter county, Ala. My mother was named Millie, and belonged to David Hooks; my oldest brother was named Samuel; he was sold to some one living about 15 miles from Livingston. I was brought to Texas in 1853 by Mr. Joel…

Bennett H. Forrester searching for his father's relatives and his guardians George and Sally Hunters

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 28, 1882

DEAR EDITOR: I desire to inquire for my father's relatives. My father, now deceased, was Hardy Forrest. He left his relatives in Stanley's Creek, Gaston county, North Carolina. His father and mother were Samuel and Lucy Forrest, brothers, Moses, Orange, Jerry, and Wart Forrest. He had also some sisters; one named Margaret Forrest. I desire that all…

Isiam W. Thomas searching for his father Henry Phillips and unnamed uncles

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 12, 1882

DEAR EDITOR: I desire to hear of my father, Henry Phillips who belonged to Dave Phillips. I left him in Sumter county, Georgia. He had a wife and three children at that time. Mother was Mazy and the children named Isiam, Turner, Amanda, and Matlida. My mother used to belong to Sydney Turner. My name at this time is Isiam Thomas. I desire also to…

D. J. Price searching for his uncles John and Jesse Price, as well as an unnamed uncle

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

January 4, 1883

MR. EDITOR: -- I wish to know
the whereabouts of my Uncles, my
Father's brothers, three in number.
Names - John Price, Jesse Price,
and the other he did not know the
name. My Father's name is Wm.
Price; he left his parents' home
when 12 years of age, by the traders
to New Orleans, and stayed
there six months, when a farmer
by…

G. W. Beamon searching for his uncle Davis Ewell

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 10, 1886

MR. EDITOR - I want to inquire for my uncle. The last time I heard from him he was at Lula, Miss, and he moved from there to Washington county, on Dr. Hoggin's place; his name was Davis Ewell; his mother's name is Hannah, and his father Joe Ewell; he has a sister living at Pickens by the name of Elizabeth Beamon. Any information will be please be…

Martha Easte searching for her family including mother Martha and uncle Andy Johnson

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 22, 1886

MR. EDITOR―I desire to find my people. I left my parents in Mosel, Texas, when quite young, mother's name is Martha, her brother's name was Andy Johnson, my father's name was Chas. Johnson, his wife is named Miranda. My mother once belonged to Judge Adkins. The man that bought me was named Benj. Robinson. They took me to Union county, Arkansas. I…

Jacob Robinson searching for his uncle Major Savage

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 16, 1886

MR. EDITOR -- I desire to inquire for my uncle, Major Savage, my mother's brother; he belonged to the Savage family in Accommac county, Va. My father belonged to the Robbins family up to the beginning of the war. He gave me the name of Robinson, and we are known by the name of Robinson now. My uncle was sold before the war. Address Jacob…

Andrew Jackson (called Deider) searching for his uncle Henry Jackson and sisters Annie and Laura Jackson

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 5, 1883

DEAR EDITOR: --I desire to inquire for my people. I had two sisters, Annie and Laura Jackson ; uncle was Henry Jackson. We lived in New Orleans. They called me Deider. We belonged to Henry Crocker. I was put in Foster's trade yard and sold to Mr. Grimes, near the time of the blockade. Address me at Caney, Matagorda co., Texas, care of J.C.…

Felix Dancuill (formerly Felix Allen) searching for his father Anthony Ford, mother Melinda Allen, several siblings, and uncles

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 12, 1883

DEAR EDITOR:-- I wish to find out whereabouts of my relatives. My father's name was Anthony Ford. He left me in Morgan county, Ala. My mother belonged to John Allen; her name was Melinda Allen; her children's names were Frank, Susan, King, Aleck, and Felix Allen. Her oldest son was Frank Allen. My mother's brothers were named Frank and Phillis…

Ed Kneeright searching for his grandmother Lucy Walter and her children Rachel, Cherry, and Sam Walter

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

May 17, 1883

MR. EDITOR:--I desire to inquire
for my grandmother and children.
We belonged to Mrs. Peggy Achili.
She lived in South Carolina, Wins-
borough [Winsborough] county; my mother died
there when I was three weeks old.
Mrs. Achilli moved us to Missis-
sippi [Mississippi], and stopped in Yallabusha
county. I was there until I was 12…

Mrs. Martha Smith searching for her uncle Mr. Thomas Barrett

Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

June 11, 1898

Do You Know Them? Mrs. Martha Smith, the daughter of Mr. Claiborne Barrett of Culpepper, Va., would like to know or have some information of her uncle, Mr. Thomas Barrett who has lived in Richmond, Va., for a number of years. Please address all communications to Mrs. Martha Smith, 1684 Foulkrod St., Frankford, Phila. Pa.

Charles Pearson searching for his mother and uncle

Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)

September 24, 1880

INFORMATION WANTED. - Dr. E.A. Stabler
has received a letter from J.C. Clapp, a colored
preacher of Newton, Catawba county, N.
C. written, he says, at the request of Charles
Pearson, colored, who, at the last term of the
court of that county was convicted of murder
and sentenced to be hanged on the 22d of October,
"to ascertain…

Charles C. Wilson searching for his uncle John Wilson or any of the Alexander family

The Appeal (Chicago, IL)

March 21, 1891

JOHN WILSON––-I wish to find my uncle John Wilson or some some of the Alexander family. I last saw them about 1863 or '64 when they were in the employ of Col. A. K. McClure, Chambersburg, Pa., from there they all went West. Address, Charles C. Wilson, Merchantville, N. J.

George Mayfield (formerly George McKinney) searching for his mother Nancy McKinney and siblings and uncle

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

September 6, 1883

MR. EDITOR - I wish to inquire for my relatives I left in Kentucky when quite a small boy. My mother was Nancy McKinney, sisters, Mary McKinney and Sarah McKinney; brothers, Calvin McKinney, Squire McKinney, Bill McKinney and Samuel McKinney; I had an uncle named Alfred Carson, a Baptist preacher. I left them in Butler county, Kentucky. I was…

Mattie P. Moseby searching for their father Washington Moseby and his brother Jimmy Lee

August 6, 1892

WASHINGTON MOSEBY-I wish to find my father Washington Moseby. I last heard from him about twelve years when he was living in Memphis, also. his brother Jimmy Lee. Address, Mattie P Moseby, 71 Gullatt street, Atlanta, Ga. 4-1.

Mrs. Gracie White (formerly Gracie Ship) searching for her uncle Washington Ship

The Appeal (Chicago, IL)

June 4, 1892

WASHINGTON SHIP.-I wish to find my uncle Washington Ship. I left him in Wayne County, N. C. My name was Gracie Ship. I had an aunt named Hannah Kieth. Address Mrs. Gracie White, DuQuoin, Ill. 3-26-92.

Campbell Siler searching for their family

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 11, 1883

DEAR EDITOR--I desire to hear
from my relatives. My mother,
Mary, belonged to Jess Siler, in
North Carolina. Her children were
Campbell, Oliver, Lucretia, and
Lucinda. We were sold by Siler
to Capt. Jarrett, in Georgia, in 1831.
We were sold to Thompson, who
swapped my mother and three children
to Judge Morton. That left
me in…