Mrs. Lucy Burk searching for Mary Burk

Gold Hill Daily News (Gold Hills, NV) (reprinted, with editorial commentary, from the Indianapolis Evening News)

April 24, 1873

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A GENTLE reminder of the old, happy
days in the South is found in the fol-
lowing [following], clipped from the Indianapolis
Evening News, under the head of "In-
formation [Information] Wanted:"
Mrs. Lucy Burk, of Richmond, Vir-
ginia [Virginia], a colored woman, wants infor-
mation [information] concerning Mary Burk, who
was sold from Captain Samuel Free-
man's [Freeman's] Virginia estate during slave
times.

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Mrs. Lucy Burk searching for Mary Burk. Mary was sold from Captain Samuel Freeman's Virginia estate during her former enslavement.

Subject

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Newspaper

Gold Hill Daily News (Gold Hills, NV) (reprinted, with editorial commentary, from the Indianapolis Evening News)

Date

April 24, 1873

Searcher Location

Richmond, VA

Searchee Location

VA (Virginia)

Contributor

Jesse Nasta

Source

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress

Citation

"Mrs. Lucy Burk searching for Mary Burk," Gold Hill Daily News (Gold Hills, NV) (reprinted, with editorial commentary, from the Indianapolis Evening News), April 24, 1873, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, accessed July 27, 2024, https://informationwanted.org/items/show/3646