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FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE, 
Effected in first-class Companies. 

REAL ESTATE 
Bought, Sold and Exchanged,
Titles Traced, Taxes Paid,
Loans Negotiated, Collections Made, Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments of Writing, executed with accuracy, by

WILLIAM E. BELL, 
Licensed Broker, Conveyancer, and Notary Public

OFFICE OF
WILLIAM E. BELL,
Richmond Insurance, Real Estate and General Agency,
South-East Cor. Main and Fifth Streets,
Richmond, Ind., 11 Mo 9th 1871

O. O. Howard

Esteemed Friend
On behalf of the 2 Sisters of a Colored boy I write to get some information as to his whereabouts - they can give no very definite account as to the time he left the South, but suppose it was a few months previous to the close of the War, when an officer of the Union army took him from Brownsville Arkansas going north. The boy's name is John Banks, is now about 16 years old, high colored and has straight hair, his sisters are comfortably settled here, and are very anscious to find out where he is, as they wish to write him. 

We know these persons & take an interest in them, his brother in law is a most respectable man & rents from us, and if thou canst set