1849--Boone Co., Oscar F. White Attempts Escape
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Title
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1849--Boone Co., Oscar F. White Attempts Escape
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Date
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1849
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Formatted date
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1849-01-01
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Event type
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Escape
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Description
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After his family's unsuccessful escape attempt ca. 1849, Oscar White was sold first to Webb Ross of Georgetown, Kentucky, then to an unnamed enslaver in Memphis, TN. He enlisted in the 42nd US Colored Infantry on 19 Mar 1864 at Chattanooga, Tennessee under the alias "Oscar Baker". He attained the rank of sergeant and listed his occupation as a mason. After the war, he worked on the Alabama "farm of William Lanier" in 1868. From Freedman's Bank documents, the following information is uncovered: Oscar was married to a woman named Adeline and they hada child named Elen. 1870 census also shows son, Oscar, Jr. Oscar believed that his father "Felix" was in Ohio and his mother was in Georgetown at the time of the interveiw with the Freedmen's Bank. The fate of Oscar's young family is unclear. He traveled west and was reunited with his two of his siblings and his mother by 1880, married his second wife in 1883 and eventually settled in Colorado. He died in 1922.
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Bibliographic citation
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"Jenny (White) Carter Information Wanted Ad," The Christian Recorder, Philadelphia, PA, 27 Apr 1867
