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Sarah Ann Chambliss of Montgomery, Alabama, searches for her father, Joshua Harris, and her mother, Sophia Hase, in an advertisement dated May 23, 1875. Sophia writes that her father was formerly enslaved by the Widow Norris and her mother was formerly enslaved by Simms Hase. The advertisement appears in the July 1, 1876 issue of the Baptist Herald, a newspaper out of Paducah, Kentucky.
"Sarah Ann Chambliss searches for her parents, Joshua Harris and Sophia Hase," Baptist Herald (Paducah, KY), July 1, 1876, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, accessed October 21, 2026, https://informationwanted.org/items/show/5567
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