Mark Messer searching for his father, Americus Valentine, who was sold from Lumpkin's Jail in Richmond, VA.
A later ad taken out in the Richmond Planet by his mother Elizabeth Jones, who was searching for her brothers, indicates that Mark found his fathers people, but which people he found are not specified. That ad can be found here:
https://informationwanted.org/lastseen312/items/show/id/2054
"Mark Messer searching for his father Americus Valentine and his family," Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA), January 30, 1897, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, accessed September 20, 2024, https://informationwanted.org/lastseen312/items/show/1274
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