23 DECEMBER 1859: Memphis Daily Appeal

$25 Reward.

RANAWAY from my plantation in Council Bend, Ark., on the 29th November, two negro boys – JOBE, nineteen or twenty years old, black color, weighs about 180 pounds, very likely, dressed in white Kentucky jeans and worsted cap. WASHINGTON or Wash, twenty-one or two years old, very black, fine teeth, dressed in white Kentucky jeans and white wool hat, and weighs about 150 or 160 pounds, very likely. They rode off a fine horse mule and bay mare, the right fore hoof of the mule has a split in it. One rode a waggon saddle and the other a common saddle, nearly new.

I will pay the above reward for each or either of the above named boys, if delivered to me at Memphis, or confined in jail so that I can get them again.

E.M. APPERSON

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