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MR. EDITOR-I wish to inquire for my brothers and sisters. The last time I saw them they belonged to Louis Taliver, and were living in Mississippi. Their names are Emmanuel, Stephen, Frank, Mary, and Phoebe Taliver. About that time I was taken to Alabama by Nick Taliver, and sold to a man named Morgan Smith. Shortly after this Louis Taliver took them to Bossier parish, La. About 15 or 16 years after this Morgan Smith died, and in 1860 his son Frank Smith took me to Louisiana, within about 13 miles of the place where my people had been living, but I found that they had moved to Texas. I left one of my sisters in Ala-bama; her name was Peninie Green, her husband was Robin Green, and they belonged to Joe Green. Sae lived 6 or 7 miles east of Mongom-ery. My wife's name is Ellen, and her mother and father were named Pater Sophie Johnson. She had four aunts and four uncles whose names were Minnie, Mary, Betty, Phillis and Ernest, Jim, Robert and Jack Gilmer. Any information of any of hte above named will be galdly received by Valentine Taliver, Shreveport, La.