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INFORMATION WANTED -- Of my mother. Her name is or was Phoebe Ratlaft. She was in the South during the war. She belonged to one Lewis Helterlirant, a Cherokee Indian, on or near Grand River. Indian Territory. I was an infant when she was run South, and am her first child.

I heard from her once when she was in Topeka, Kan., and went from there to Oklahoma Ter. Any information concerning her whereabouts will be thankfully received by her daughter Eda Ratlaft, but now Eda Lowe of Parsons Kan., in care of Rev. J. R. Ransom, Pastor of the A. M. E. Church.