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Mr. Editor.--I reside in Madi- son, Jefferson county, Indiana; a free holder of some property; was born in old Virginia, Madison coun- ty, five miles from Orange Court- house, ten miles from Madison Courthouse, and three miles from Lyson Mill. My mother's name Nannie, and belonged to Mallier. A number of years ago I had a brother by the name of Horace Buckner sold to the Negro trader. The man that bought him was named Humphrey Taylor. When he came back after another drove of Negroes he stated to us that he had sold him in Huntsville, Ala. I have thought a thousand times about writing and trying to find him, but I thought that he was dead, and he may be, but I've come to the conclusion that he is as like- ly to be alive as I am. I am the oldest. I have a desire to hear from him. Gibson Maller, a son of old Billy, brought me and brother Peter from old Virginia, Jefferson county, within five miles of Louis- ville, and there we served until the emancipation took place. Brother Peter came to Indiana when I did, but he is dead now. He died in 1882. A family of them by the name of Buckner went to the South, and if any of them are there I would like to hear from them. I desire this to go through all of the churches, Baptist and Methodist. A son of old Travis Buckner that married Nannie, belonged to Orm- bus Madison, not far from Orange Courthouse. Aunt Lettie was living in Kentucky the last I heard of her; uncle Madges wife.

                   ALFRED BUCKNER.