Rev. Charles Brown's writes to thank the Southwestern Christian Advocate for their assistance in finding his family who had been missing since 1867. They were in Crawford, MS one county over from him and he was reconnected with them on October 22, 1885, though some of them have since died. He writes of one subscriber who hopes the paper can reunite her with her people who have been lost for 35 or 40 years. He promises to do all he can for the paper.
Rev. Charley Brown took out an ad searching for his two aunts and uncles and their children through the Southwestern Christian Advocate on October 1, 1885. It can be found here:
https://informationwanted.org/lastseen312/items/show/2666
The story of Rev. Charley Brown's found relations got around and many people writing ads in this paper reference this success as their reason for writing their own ads.
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