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DEAR SIR: Will you please do an old woman a kindness and she will always bless you for it whether successful or not, by making in- quiry [inquiry] through your paper for her son, Morris Mason. He was sold by W J. Mason in Shelby Co., Ky., to Lude Hopkins, who took him South in about the year 1856; his name is or was Morris Mason. When last heard of he was in Tex- as [Texas] in 1874. His mother is named America Mason.

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