Isabella Joseph searching for her parents Seneca and Rhoda Paterson and several siblings
TEXAS, BOX 78.
DEAR EDITOR ---- I wish to inquire for my people through your paper. My name is Isabella. I and my brother Jesse were brought from North Carolina by Dr. Mills. We were sold in Madison county, Mississippi. My sisters, Martha and Rosanna, were bought at the same time by a trader named John Ford, and was sold in Louisiana. Our mother and father were named Senaca and Rhoda Paterson. Father use to belong Paterson, mother to the Hamilton's. They had in all fifteen or sixteen children. My sister Maria was in Atlanta, Ga., with a man named Jake Deck. I left my father and mother and brothers Alfred Long and Cisero, sister Sallie and Mary in Rutherford county, N. C. Sister Claracy, brother Frank, and Elvira, my twin sister, is dead. Brother Jerry, Senaca Jr., and Benjamin was sold before I was. Our grandmother was named Lettie. We had two uncles, Jerry and Arthur Long. My sister Emma is the youngest child. I am now living at Mayersville, Isaquena county, Mississippi. Address Isabella Joseph, care R. A. Johnston, P. O. Box 33, Mayersville, Isaquena county, Mississippi.
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