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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 county [Loudoun County, Virginia]. 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