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• Hamilton, Thomas
  Thomas Hamilton was among the eldest of the minor heirs of Reuben Hamilton. His birth year was about 1851, as revealed in several guardian settlement documents. In 1870, Thomas is listed as a "domestic servant" in the household of a wealthy Oxford Banker.
• Hamilton, Harriet [2]
  Harriet Hamilton was among the minor heirs of Reuben Hamilton in Oxford (Ohio). Probate documents place her birth year at about 1852. In 1870, Harriet is found working as a domestic in the household of her employer in Oxford.
• Craig, Lucy
  Lucy was among Reuben Hamilton's older children. Probate documents for Hamilton's estate indicate she was married between1866-1868, as her surname changed to Criag during that time. Additional documents show payment for her transportation to Kentucky in 1866.
• Hamilton, Monselle
  Monselle was the youngest surviving child of Reuben Hamilton. Guardian settlement documents in 1870 in Butler County, Ohio indicate she was living in Oxford that year, but no other trace of her has yet been found.
• Hamilton, Henry [2]
  Henry, his mother and father all died of Cholera in Oxford, Ohio in 1866, his birthdate is unknown.
• Riley, Reuben Lee
• Riley, Charles
• 1906--Boone Co., Julius Simpson marries Alta May Weaver
  Julius Simpson and Alta May Weaver are married by H.L. Selby. Witnessed by Ethel Sturgeon and S.E. Selby.
• Martin, Nancy
  Nancy Martin Dixon was a Free woman of African descent who married Benoni Dixon in Boone County in 1816. The couple remained in Boone County until about 1827. They moved first to Dearborn County (Ind.) then settled in Switzerland County (Ind.) Nancy has not been found in recrods after 1850.
• Dixon, Benoni
  Benoni Dixon was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to a White mother named Elizabeth Parks and an a father of African descent. At four and 1/2 months, he was indentured to Alexander Kennedy, for the term of 20 years, six months.
• Howlett, Handy
  Handy Howlett was a Free African American man living in Verona in 1860, working as a laborer on the Norman farm. He appeared in the tax list in Boone County in 1865 as the owner of two horses. In 1866, he was renting a property in Covington that was used as a one-room Freedmen's Bureau school.
• Utz, Martha Elizabeth
• Aylor, Merimon
• Langford, Liberty
  In 1864, Langford was assessed an additional federal tax of 36 cents for six hogs he slaughtered.
• Langford, Isaac E.
  Isaac was received as a member of the West Elkton Meeting on April 23, 1874.
• Langford, Anna E.
  Ann was received as a member of the West Elkton Meeting on April 23, 1874.
• Langford, Nancy
• Langford, Walter J.
  Walter Langford was a sharecropper farmer. The agricultural schedule for the 1880 census shows that he paid his rent in a share of the produce, rather than a fixed price. The schedule also shows that he had two horses, 48 acres of land in tilling rotation, 1 acre as permanent meadow, and 20 acres of forest or woodland on the land he rented.
• Langford, Americus
• Stubbs, Jesse
  Jesse Stubbs was a Quaker and abolitionist who was heavily involved in the Underground Railroad in Preble County, Ohio.
• 1858--Rockcastle Co., Craig Langford Buys His Family
  Craig Langford was living free in Preble County, Ohio, though his wife and seven children were still enslaved in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. In 1858, a local abolitionist, Jesse Stubbs, both contributed his own money and took up a subscription in the community to help raise the funds needed to purchase Craig's wife Fannie and their children. The two men journeyed together to Rockcastle County, securing the family's freedom and taking them home to Ohio.
• Brown, Daniel
  Little is known about Daniel Brown, other than his appearance in Boone County tax lists in 1814-1815 and a brief mention of his role as a previous enslaver of Philip Miller, who later escaped from Fayette County enslaver, Richard Ashton.
• Trail, Willam Tomson
  William Trail was a Maryland native who only briefly lived in Boone County. He was named as "William Thrale, who lived near Burlington" in an escape ad placed in Fayette County in 1824. Trail was married in Boone County the year prior to the advrertisement.
• 1824--Fayette Co., Philip Miller's gallop to freedom
  On Sunday, Sep 26, 1824, 22-yr-old Philip Miller escaped Fayette County enslaver Richard Ashton. Miller had formerly been enslaved in Boone County, first by Daniel Brown, next by William Thrale, who sold him to Ashton.
• Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Connersville, Ind.)
  Denomination: Baptist