Amanda Whitfield searching for her mother, Annie Straan, sisters Hannah, Betsy, Matilda, and Martha Maria, and brothers Columbus and Richard. Her mother Annie was formerly enslaved by Billie Straan who brought them from Butt's County, GA to Alabama, then Mississippi, then East Texas, Jasper County. Their former enslaver left Alabama in debt and ran away to Texas before his property could be levied. The sheriff, Billie's brother, came to Texas and took her mother and five siblings back but Martha Maria remained with Billie. Hannah was left in Alabama and was last hear from there. She has heard Martha Maria is dead indirectly, but not to her satisfaction. The sheriff who carried her mother and five siblings back to Alabama was shipwrecked on his way back to Texas. She was Amanda Straan but now goes by Amanda Whitfield.
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