His-Story is History

Although Hawkins Wilson, a Texas freedman, had been sold away from Virginia as a young boy, time and distance had neither dimmed his memories of childhood family and friends nor diminished his emotional connection to them. Twenty-four years later, he wrote to his "dearest relatives" through the Freedman's Bureau, introducing himself to them, not as the boy they had known but as the man he had become. His letters were forwarded to the bureau agent in Caroline County, Virginia. They remain in whole files, suggesting that Wilson's kinfolk was never found. 

155 years later – Hawkins Wilson's letters finally reached his descendants.