Jack Corkley finds his mother after 40 years

The Cincinnati Daily Star (Cincinnati, OH)

January 23, 1879

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LOUISVILLE, Jan. 23.---Jack Corkley, col-ored porter of the Short-line, has returned from Louisiana, where, after an separa-tion of forty years, he found his mother. She was sold as a slave when Corkley was a year old.

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Corkley, a Louisville, Kentucky, railroad porter, found his mother in Louisiana. She was sold away from him when he was a year old.

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January 23, 1879
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Louisville, KY

LA (Louisiana)

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Jesse Nasta

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"Jack Corkley finds his mother after 40 years ," The Cincinnati Daily Star (Cincinnati, OH), January 23, 1879, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, accessed April 25, 2024, https://informationwanted.org/items/show/3252

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