John Jones, Washington, DC, separated from mother at start of Civil War. He found her in New York City.
Slightly different reports of this story appeared in multiple newspapers. See, for example, The New York World, 23 Feb 1894, page 8, and The San Francisco Morning Call, 11 Mar 1894, page 3.
"John Jones finds his mother, Parthenia Jones, after more than a 30-year separation ," The Sun (New York, NY), February 23, 1894, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, accessed September 19, 2024, https://informationwanted.org/lastseen312/items/show/2836
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