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- Newspaper: The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
Elizabeth Butler searching for her mother Anna Brown/Anna Blackwell and three sisters
The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
May 30, 1840
INFORMATION WANTED,
OF ANNA BROWN or ANNA BLACKWELL, or of her
three daughters, NANCY, ELIZA and SUSAN, a
griffe woman who was brought from Virginia by one
Mr. Latham about the year 1830 to the city of New
Orleans, and sold. Any information leading to their
discovery will be most thankfully received, by leaving
their names at this…
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Henny Butler searching for her daughter Frances
The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
August 12, 1843
INFORMATION WANTED.
HENNY BUTLER, a colored woman, residing
at Cumberland, in Maryland, desires information concerning
the present residence of her daughter FRANCES,
who went with Doctor Lawrence 7 years ago to
Natchez, Mississippi; from which place she was afterwards
removed to New Orleans.
Her letters from New Orleans reach her…
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Gracy Boyd searching for her daughters Mary Boyd and Peggy Boyd
The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
June 13, 1841
INFORMATION WANTED,
BY a poor distressed mother, who had two daughters
sold, one named Mary and the other Peggy
Boyd; the former is now 38 years old, the latter 27;
they were sold about 20 years ago to Mr. Blount
Robertson, of Louisiana, who sold them to some
French gentleman; they were sold by George Boyd
of Nashville. Their mother of…
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Martha Cobble finds her sons Thurston Cobble and Ned Cobble after a 40-year search
The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
August 16, 1889
A Mother's Search.
An interesting incident has just been
brought to light in Owensboro, Ky., in
which Martha Cobble, who served a
great portion of her life in slavery in
Virginia, and who forty years ago was
separated from her children, is the he-
roine. The mother and her offspring
were owned by a planter in Richmond,
Va., and at the…
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Thomas Doss searching for his parents Isaac and Nancy Doss
The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
July 12, 1870
WANTED--INFORMATION CONCERN-
ing [concerning] the whereabouts of ISAAC and
NANCY DOSS, colored. will be thankfully re-
ceived [received] by their distressed son,
THOMAS DOSS,
Lawraville P. O., Baltimore county, Md.
Jy12--6t*
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C. A. Halley searching for Mrs. Fleming, the wife of Harvey Fleming
The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
November 25, 1900
INFORMATION wanted of the present address
of the Mrs. Fleming, colored, who, in
war times, was wife of Harvey Fleming; supposed
to be in New Orleans. C. A. Halley,
special examiner, custom-house.
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Jerry Harvey searching for his brother Washington Harvey.
The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
January 26, 1868
PERSONAL
TO COLORED MEN AND OTHERS.
INFORMATION WANTED
WASHINGTON HARVEY was sold from Howard
County, Missouri, to William D. Malone, Randolph
county, Missouri, about November, 1859, to be sent
to Maynard Williams, near Huntsville Missouri,
who afterward sent him to James McHatten near
New Orleans, about January 1, 1860. If…
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