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  • Tags: widow
  • Widow refers to ads in which the person seeking information is a woman looking for information about a husband known or believed to be deceased; these ads were usually placed by women seeking information regarding their husbands’ military service for the purposes of securing a pension.

Malinda Jones (formerly Malinda Rhode) searching for her father Samuel Rhode and her siblings

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A. B. Coleman searching for their relatives

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Jim Napier searching for his nieces and nephews

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Eddie Manuel (formerly Eve Gregg) searching for her children January and Beckey Grimbol

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Mrs. Martha Brown searching for her father Caesar Jackson

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Rebecca Bell (formerly Rebecca Wade) searching for her mother Lucy Wade

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Milton Douglas reuniting with his wife

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Rev. J. A. Fullerton seeking the relatives of Rev. Thomas Wilson

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James Benecke searching for relatives of Moses Newton

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Mary Covington searching for her sons Richmond and Wyatt Covington

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Casswell Jones seeking his father Briden Jones, mother Betty Howell, and siblings

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Mrs. Rebecca Hunter searching for her son Adolph Jackson

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Hannah Johnson searching for her parents Susan and Paul

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Mrs. Cornelia Edwards searching for her father Plenty McKeniers and family

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Louisa Hardeman (formerly Louisa Kemple) searching for her aunt Elizabeth Ratcliff

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Jessie Mitchell searching for their father Ben Mitchell (or Ben Dotson), step-mother Patience Burton, and siblings Nancy, Tom Burton and Howard Burton

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Mary Boyd searching for her mother Mariah Thomas (formerly Mariah Puet)

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John Nelson (alias John Brest) seeking his people, including his mother

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Alfred Yancey searching for his relatives, including his wife Phoebe Chandler

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Mary Jane Minter (Formerly Mary Jane Patton) searching for her brother William Lite Dune

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Green Morgan and Prudence Croan reunited and remarried after 30-year separation

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Vina Johnson reunited with her husband George Perry after 43 years

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Miss Carrie Lewis searching for her mother Annie Lewis and brothers Eddie and Orange Lewis

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Alvin Steele searching for his mother Sarah Steele and his sister Harriet Steele

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W. H. Gilliam seeking Mrs. Johnson (formerly Miss Hannah Harmer).

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