Mr. Editor : Please inquire for my people. My name is Edward Hudson. I was born in Russell county, Ala., in 1855, but was raised in Columbus, Ga. My mother, aunt and two uncles, belonged to a family named Hooper, who formerly lived in Crawford, Ala., and removed to Opelika. My father, Richard Hudson, emigrated from Columbus, Ga., to Liberia, in 1867. My mother's two brothers, Moses and Ike Hudson, were last seen by me in Columbus, about 1870. I had a half brother named Richard Hudson, Jr. My mother's sister, Mary Ann Sheridan, and her husband, Green Sheridan, were last seen by me in Taylor county, Ga., in 1875. I saw Louis Flournoy, a relative of my father, in Talbotton, Ga., in 1875. After teaching school in Talbot county, Ga., for four years, I emigrated to Mississippi, in 1876, and thus got entirely lost from my already scattered relatives. Failing afterwards to learn of their whereabouts, after repeatedly writing to them, confirmed my belief that they too had emigrated, or are dead. I forgot to say that my mother, Jane Ray, died in 1871. My stepfather's name was Henry Ray. Any person acquainted with the whereabouts of any of these

parties will confer a great favor by writing to me at once, and if my father, Richard Hudson, has returned home from Liberia, please write me word, also, as I don't know whether he is dead or living. I dream of him so much. Yours, etc., CHAS. E. HUDSON. Falsonia, Miss.