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  MR. EDITOR--I wish to inquire through the SOUTHWESTERN for my mother, Harriet, brother John, sister Lucy, and Mary Childress.  Brother John was sold to Jack Harvey, who lived, I think, 25 miles from Kansas City, Missouri.  I was sold to some man whose name I do not know, as I was very young at the time.  My mother lived with a man named Governor Hayes, who kept a boarding house in Kansas City.  I can give no account of my sister Lucy and Mary.  My father's name was Milton Childress.  John was my half brother by father.  Mother was dark, heavy set.  I was born in Clark county, Missouri.  Any information of the above named persons will please address Sam Childress, Willis, Texas, care of Rev John L. Smith, box 1083.