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Mr. Editor: I lost my father near 31 years ago, as well as I can remember. He belonged to the Booths', he and mother were parted in slave time by their owners. Mother belonged to the Strowthers, both came from Hinds county, Mississippi. Mother located in East Texas, father in West Texas. He was said to have gone near to the Indian Nation, to the salt works, and mother in Sabine county. She was Annette Strowther, and father was Richard Boose. He now goes by the name of Richard Crowder. Father had a daughter Nancy. He and mother did not live together long, and I was born after they were parted and named Mary Ann Canton. I received a letter from father the second year of freedom, and I did not answer it because I feared he would take me from mother. She is dead, and I feel the need of father. His owner was John Boose, mother's, Tom Strowther. Address me at Milam, Texas. MARY ANN CANTON.