Keyword Year How to Search Advanced Search Showing 40 ads Tags: dowry Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Atchison Weekly Champion (Atchison, KS)Evening Star (Washington, DC)Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory)The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) Tags dowryAfrican Methodist Episcopal Churchaunt(s)changed namechild(ren)Civil Warcontrabandsconvicteddebtdying wishemancipationescapedestateestate divisionfamily historyfemale enslaverforced migrationformer enslaverfoundfraternal groupsfree people of colorfreedgrandparent(s)heir(s)inheritancekidnappingleft with Union Armyletter to the editorliteracylynchingmaritime workmaster diedmigration (north)migration (post-emancipation)migration (west)ministerministers please readparent(s)propertyremarriedresistancerunawaysearching for former enslaverself-emancipationsibling(s)slave tradeslave tradersold southsteamboatstolenU. S. Armyuncle(s)untranscribedveteranwhite newspaperwidow B. J. Houston searching for his mother Jane McKinan and his siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 20, 1880 James M. Cullins searching for his father Tom Cullins and sister Vina Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 3, 1880 Robert Howard searching for his sister Elizabeth Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 10, 1880 Charles Henry Turner searching for his brother Thomas Turner Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 31, 1879 M. A. E. Tolbert (formerly Martha Ann Elizabeth Brooks) searching for her mother Elizabeth Brooks Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 19, 1879 Pastor L. M. Hagood seeking the family of church member Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 8, 1877 A. D. Coleman searching for his brother Anderson Turner and his daughter Lucy Turner Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) January 19, 1882 Malissa Baker (formerly Malissa Robertson) searching for Bettie and Mary Hicks Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 20, 1888 Caroline Hogan (formerly Caroline Brown) seeking her father Isaac Jamison, mother Peggy Brown, and siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 8, 1881 Clara Foltz searching for the family of her father Mitchel Oliver Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 3, 1881 W. D. Drummond searching for his brother John Drummond Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 7, 1889 Susan Steward seeking her siblings Burrel and Amelia Houston Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 8, 1881 Mrs. Cornelia Edwards searching for her father Plenty McKeniers and family Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 16, 1888 Silvy Silas looking for her sons Jackson, John, and David Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 28, 1881 Caroline Hogan (formerly Caroline Brown) looking for her father Isaac Jimerson, her mother Peggy Brown, and her siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 14, 1881 J. H. Holden (formerly Joseph Waddle) seeking his father Holder Waddle Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 23, 1881 Elmira Kirkwood searching for her mother Jane Harris Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 8, 1888 Sophia Gates seeking her mother Betsy Jones and father Yorkup Staples Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 22, 1888 Rhode Reeves seeking his siblings Nelson, Perrena, Minnie, and Adam Hill Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 6, 1887 Manervia Carway searching for her daughter Millie Dortha (formerly Millie Carway) Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 26, 1887 Kitty Hanley searching for her children Esther and Sam Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 25, 1880 Mrs. Amy Frenchy (formerly Amy Morris and Amy Baxter) found her mother Feraby The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory) May 4, 1884 Fanny Strong searching for her parents Joe and Sallie and her siblings Sucky, Dollie, Rachel, Joseph, and Green or her former enslaver's family Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) May 13, 1907 George Henry Forbes searching for his father George Henry, mother Henrietta Forbes, and siblings James, Margaret, and Area Atchison Weekly Champion (Atchison, KS) September 5, 1885 John A. Brown searching for his parents and siblings George, Mary Jane, Ellen Nora, and Peter Brown Evening Star (Washington, DC) December 21, 1886 of 2
