DEAR EDITOR - I wish to find
my children and my wife's people.
There are two sets of my children.
The first, three boy and four girls.
Boys names are Tom, Silas, and Joe
Thomas (Tom and Silas were
twins); girls names, Lucy, Martha,
Nancy, and Caroline Thomas. Their
mother was Mary Fuller. They
belonged to Fuller, Sinclair county,
Alabama. The second set, three
boys, Arneral, Stewart, and William
Thomas; girls, Catherine, Mary,
and Henrietta. Their mother was
Maria Thomas. She belonged to
James Thomson, Sinclair county,
Alabama, twelve miles south of
Ashville. My wife's people were:
Father, Walton Harly; mother,
Pamena Harly; brothers, Handy,
Lewis, and two twin boys, Eugene
and McDuffy; sisters, Hagar, Tangil,
Johanna, Almelia, Virginia, and
Pamen. They belonged to Captain
Joe Harly, in Hamburg county,
South Carolina, near Augusta,
about nine miles on the Charleston
road. We left father in South Carolina
and went to Alabama. where
we were all sold to a negro trader
(Jackson), but mother was left at
the trading house. My name then
was Annie America Harly. I was
ten years old and have never seen
any of them since. Address me at
Huntsville, Walker county, Texas.

SILAS THOMAS.