Richard Woods searching for his mother Lucy Hankins

DEAR EDITOR—I wish to make inquiry for my mother. She was sold in Lunenburg Co., Virginia, by Joe Hankins to Silas Woods. I was sold at the same time, but when Woods came after us Hankins bought me back from him, but let him take my mother. They sold her to some trader, and as I was only seven years old I cannot recollect much about it. Three years after I was brought to Texas. and I have not heard of mother since Woods sold her. I took my name after the man that bought my mother, and he was said to be my father. Two of mother's brothers came to Texas with me, Dick and James Hankins. Mother was Lucy Hankins. Two cousins, Betsey and Stephen, children of mother's sisters Nancy who died in Virginia, came with us to Texas. RICHARD WOODS, Davilla, Texas.

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