1848--Freedom for Woodford Barkshire

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Title: 1848--Freedom for Woodford Barkshire
Date: 1848
Formatted date: 1848-01-01
Event type: Manumission
Description: Son of Samuel Barkshire and Frances Harriet Newman. He was born in 1832 into slavery in Boone County (Ky.) and was owned by the Barkshire family before being transferred to the holding of Joseph and Nancy Hawkins in Rising Sun by 1836. He was manumitted in 1848. As an official free person of color, he was a conductor for the UGRR and helped freedom seekers find a path to Canada. He died in 1868.
Participant: African American(s): Woodford Barkshire; Samuel Barkshire; Frances Harriet Newman; Barkshire, Woodford; Barkshire, Samuel; Newman, Frances; Slave holder(s): Barkshire, Dickey; Hawkins, Joseph; Hawkins, Nancy; Barkshire, Dickey; Hawkins, Joseph Jr.; Hawkins, Nancy
Following Event: between 1850-1860--Boone Co., Piatt Coachman Escapes to Indiana
Related resource: Berkshire family; Hawkins family; Newman family
Bibliographic citation: Ohio County, Indiana, Deed Book B, page 425; Ohio County Wills, volume 2, page 28; Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; Eighth Census of the United States, 1860; "Underground Railroad: More Western Memories. Piatt Coachman Escapes To Indiana," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, NY, 24 May 1887
Source: Ohio County Deed Books; Ohio, Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998; Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; Eighth Census of the United States, 1860; Underground Railroad: More Western Memories. Piatt Coachman Escapes To Indiana
year: 1848

Item sets: AA--Events--Manumissions--Indiana