James Davidson found his daughter Miss Lena Davidson

The State Ledger (Topeka, KS)

April 13, 1894

Nellie Jones reunited with her husband Ed. Jones

The State Ledger (Topeka, KS)

May 12, 1893

Dock Watson found Alex Wesley

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

May 24, 1883

WEIMER, Texas, 1883.

DEAR BRO. - I have found Alex. Wesley; he lives in my neighbor-hood, and his mother also. They are doing well. Any communication sent through me they will get it. Respectfully,
DOCK WATSON.

William Davis and his sister Mary reunited after forty years separation

Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)

August 14, 1897

SEPARATED FOR FORTY YEARS. Strange History of William Davis and His Sister, Once Slaves. Niles, Mich. Aug. 10. - Forty years ago William Davis and his sister Mary were slaves in the family of James Matlock, a rich Georgia planter. Just before the war Matlock died and William and Mary were sold to pay the debts of the estate. They were parted and…

Margaret Young reunited with her son Dowen Young

Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)

January 1, 1898

FINDS LONG LOST SON
DOWEN YOUNG MEETS HIS MOTHER AFTER 36 YEARS

A Mother Sold and Separated From her Family in 1861, Found and Presented to her Son as a Christmas gift in 1897.

The happiest Christmas in all the great city of Chicago was, at the modest home of Dowen Young, No. 3142 Fifth avenue. It was a reunion of a mother and son torn apart…

A. Johnson found his sister

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 13, 1884

DEAR EDITOR: I had your paper.
I have found my sister, and was
glad to hear from her.
A. JOHNSON.

E. Ingraham found his lost relatives

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

August 6, 1885

MR. EDITOR--Please allow space
in your valuable colums for a
short explanation through the
SOUTHWESTERN : We have found
our relatives that have been lost
for thirty years. We feel happy,
and father is expecting to pay them
a visit soon. Grant that this paper
may find its way throughout the
land, to find lost friends that were…

John H. Coppage found his long lost brother

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

May 15, 1884

MR. EDITOR-I am under so many kind obligations to you for your trouble and my joy at finding my long lost brother. He has addressed me, and is in Texas. He read his name and my address. God bless the labors of your paper. JOHN H. COPPAGE. Tullahoma, Tenn.

An unknown person found several relations through the Southwestern Christian Advocate including their Aunt Mary Jackson

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

October 15, 1885

Lost Friend Found by the Aid of the Southwestern. MR. EDITOR: I cannot say that I am stranger to you, I am from the State and city that you are from, Louisville, Ky. I came to Louisiana in 1885. I belonged to Major Throckmorton; I was raised at the Galt House, on the corner of Maine and Second streets. My father was Peter Page, he died in 1861. I…

Mr. Wm. Page Found by his relative Mrs. Maria McSpadden

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 9, 1885

Card of Thanks. Rev. M. W. Taylor, Editor of the SOUTHWESTERN―Dear Sir: I am happy to make the acknowledgment to your valuable paper of my success in finding the whereabouts of my relative, Mr. Wm. Page, for which I thank you, and I take great pleasure in recommending the SOUTHWESTERN to every one, as I think it is a paper that should be in every…

Relations of Peter Page Found

The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 9, 1885

Peter Page, born and raised in
Louisville, Ky. Father's name was
Peter Page; mother's name was
Maria Page; used to belong to
Throckmorton, in Louisville, who
kept the Galt House, has a brother
and sister, whose names are Wil-
liam and Mary. The rest of the
brothers and sisters are dead. Wil-
liam is living at Rosedale, Iberville…

Rev. Charles Brown's people found

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

November 15, 1885

MR. EDITOR--I am in search of
of my people who left South Caro
lina in 1867, bound for Mississippi,
with Bob Holmon. Their names
are Aunt Rose, Uncle Ben Menard,
children, Ralph, Winnie, Wash,
Edward, Hannah, Butler, Silvie.
Uncle Marshall Strother, his wife
Patty belonged to Ned Culbreath
Aunt Rose has my brother Billy
with her.…

S. D. Handy located Mr. M. C. Gary's youngest brother Samuel Thomas in Cleveland, TN

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

July 24, 1884

MR. EDITOR--Mr. M. C. Gary's
youngest brother lives at Cleve-
land [Cleveland], Tennessee, and his name is
Samuel Thomas. S. D. HANDY.

W. H. Jackson reconnected with Turner Petty's people

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

April 24, 1884

MR. EDITOR.--I have got a let-
ter from Turner Petty's people
through the inquiry in the paper.
God bless the paper. It is bring-
ing the people together.
W. H. JACKSON.
Brenham, Texas.

William H. Todd finds his mother, age 100, after 40-year separation

Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA)

March 12, 1891

FOUND AT LAST.
A former Slave, Now in Ohio, Hears From
His Long-Lost Mother.
SPRINGFIELD, O., March 11, - After 40 years'
separation William H. Todd, an ex-slave at
Washington Court House, Fayette county, has
discovered the whereabouts of his mother, now
100 years old, living at Macon, GA., through a
letter received last night. …

Robert Cox reunited with his wife after 24 years

Richmond Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)

February 27, 1879

MANCHESTER AND VICINITY.
Midlothian.-The quiet village of Midlo-
thian [Midlothian] was the scene of an incident several
days ago the like of which rarely occurs.
In the spring of 1855, Robert Cox, a negro,
belonging then to a gentleman in this vi-
cinity [vicinity], was married to a woman of the same
neighborhood. Several months after…

John Williams reunited with his mother Harriet Blackwell after 32 years

Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, NC)

December 31, 1892

FOUND HIS MOTHER
John Williams Visits His Mother
After an Absence of 32 Years.
The Knoxville Tribune of yesterday
contains a long account (which was
printed as original in the Gazette this
morning) of the re-union of a mother
and son, who had not seen each other
for thirty-two years. The people were
colored, the mother's name being…

Unidentified parents reunited with their daughter after 20 years

Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)

July 29, 1875

A TOUCHING SCENE.-The Newtown (Md.)
Gazette says: The steamer Tangier last Satur-
day [Saturday] landed at our wharf a negro woman who
had been sold "way down South" some twenty
years ago. She belonged to the Rush estate,
and her father and mother, whose heads are sil-
vered [silvered] with the frosts of many winters, have re-
mained…

Robert Warren and Charity Atwater reunited and remarried after 53 years

Davenport Sunday Democrat (Davenport, IA)

June 6, 1897

Married After Fifty-three Years.
Oskaloosa, June 5. There was sol-
emnized [solemnized] here today a wedding that re-
united [reunited] “Uncle” Robert Warren, of Os-
kaloosa [Oskaloosa], and Charity Atwater, of North
Carolina, after a separation of 53 years.
The two were married according to
slave laws at Chapel Hill, North Caro-
lina…

Henry Tolliver finds his father Alfred Tolliver

Iowa State Bystander (Des Moines, IA)

August 7, 1903

EDITORIALS.
REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE
Henry Tolliver, a leading citi-
zen [citizen], living at 1413 Fremont street
is about to start on a trip to
Leavenworth, Kans., to visit his
aged father, whom he has not
seen since he was sold on the
slave block over a half century
ago, at the age of 9 years. The
father is a man of remarkable age…

George Harris and Mary J. Brooks reunite and remarry after 45 years

San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA)

July 23, 1904

FORMER SLAVES
JOIN FORTUNES
After Separation of Forty-
Five Years They Meet by
Chance at Fresno and Wed
BOTH MARRIED BEFORE
Each Had Lost a Loved One
and They Quickly Decide
to Finish Life Together
Special Dispatch to The Call.
FRESNO, July 22.---After a separa-
tion [separation] of forty-five years George Harris
and Mary J.…

Frank E. Lawrence finds his father after 36 years

Juniata Sentinel and Republican (Mifflintown, PA)

November 11, 1891

After a separation of thirty-six
years, Frank E. Lawrence, of South
Chester, has discovered the where-
abouts [whereabouts] of his father, in St. Joseph,
Mo. As slaves his father and moth
er [mother] were separated.

Hiram Jefferson reunited with son Thomas after 30 years

Daily State Gazette (Green Bay, WI)

November 15, 1893

After thirty years' separation Hiram
Jefferson and his son Thomas are reunited
in Janesville. The father became separ-
ated [separated] from his family just after the capture
of Fort Donelson, he being a slave on a
plantation near the fort.

Mrs. Anna Mollie Wright reunited with her daughter Mrs. Anna Freeman after 29 years

The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, WV)

April 11, 1892

AFTER TWENTY-NINE YEARS
A Mother and Daughter are Reunited.
The Daughter a Clarksburg Woman who
Was Sold During Slavery Days.
Special Dispatch to the Intelligencer.
FINDLAY, O., April 10.-A remarkable
reunion of mother and daughter who
had been cruelly torn from each other
at the slave block in 1863 has just taken
place in this city.…

Mr. J. Sims reunited with his two sisters

The Colored American (Washington, DC)

November 25, 1899

Mr. J. Sims, of Capitol Hill, is rejoic
ing [rejoicing] over the arrival his two sisters from
Mississippi, from whom he was sepa
rated [separated] on the outbreak of the Civil War,
and only ascertained their whereabouts
a few months ago.