DEAR EDITOR: I wish to inquire
for my relatives, father, mother, sisters,
brother, uncles, aunts, grandfather
and grandmother. We all
lived in Virginia. Mothers and
children belonged to David Nolan at
or near Flint Hill, Rappahanock
county. Mother was Emily and
father Henry Williams. He belonged
to Gibb Fletcher and lived in London
[Loudon] county. Mother and father were
both sold long before the war, down
South and apart. My three brothers
were James, George, and Henry
Williams. James was sold about
eight years before the war to a man
in Baltimore, the last time I heard of
him. My sister was Sarah, my name
Mary Ellen Williams, but I married
and am now Mary Ellen Chapman.
Sister was sold South too, and brother
George and Henry were sold with
me. We lived together until the
close of the war. We were first
sold to a runner, and he sold us to
Mr. Williams, who moved with us to
Mobile, Alabama. After the war,
my brother George left, and I have
never seen or heard of him since; and
brother Henry lives with me yet. My
grandfather was George Roots,
grandmother Sarah, and my aunt
Ellen Roots, uncles were George,
James and Philip Roots. My grandfather
bought all of his family, but
my mother and uncle Philip, at
Flint Hill Va., and moved all of
them to to Muskingum county, Ohio. I
heard that uncle George Roots was
living in Green county, Ohio.
Grandfather bought all from David Nolan
long before the war and the last I
heard from them they were all living
at Zanesville, Ohio. I have never
heard anything of mother, father,
brother James and sister Sarah since
the war. I heard that uncle Philip
was sold to a man in Kentucky,
before the war. Address, in care of H.
Adams, No. 237 Howard street, New
Orleans, La.
MARY ELLEN CHAPMAN