This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UeB.2ACI/3944 Message Board Post: I found this and thought it might help someone with their research. It is typed exactly as it appears in the paper. Cathy SOURCE: Greenville Daily News, Page 8 DATE: Thursday, July 6, 1911 DESIRES TO VISIT FATHER'S OLD HOME QUEER LETTER RECEIVED BY SHERIFF POOLE YESTERDAY, FROM GALVESTON, TEXAS, FROM PARTY PRESUMED TO BE SON OF FORMER GREENVILLE COUNTY SLAVE In the mail of Sheriff Poole yesterday morning was a rather unique letter from Galveston, Texas, which from its badly written contents, appeared to be from a Texas negro, the son of a former South Carolina slave, who was seeking information as to the birth place of his father. George Abraham was the signature at the end of the curiously hieroglyphed communication. The writer stated in a characteristically abrupt way, that his Father's owner had been named Sam Perryman, that he lived in this section of South Carolina, having moved away, it is assumed, some time after the war. The writer expressed his desire to visit the old home of his Father, and requested the Sheriff to send him some information regarding the location of this Perryman Plantation. The Sheriff admits his lack of knowledge on this point, and would doubtless welcome some light on the subjest.