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"Harry Roseberry came to work for Julia Dinsmore in 1895 as a young teenager. He continued to live on the farm until 1968, dying just a little over a year after he was taken to Cincinnati by his daughter. On November 23, 1904, he was married to Sussie Riley in Rising Sun, Indiana, by an African American preacher named John Green.
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Historic Status: National Register of Historic Places
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Historic Status: Demolished 2015
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The First Baptist Church was an African-American congregation founded circa 1870. The church was one of several in the county created by free blacks after the Civil War. Over the course of the 20th century the congregation gradually dwindled, and by mid-century was disbanded.
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Historic Status: National Register of Historic Places
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Mr. Robert Lett, a descendant of the Sleet Family, has provided the following information regarding the Hopewell Baptist Church located just south of Beaver Lick near US Highway 42.
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The church, one of two extant African-American congregations in the county, was founded in 1872. (The First Baptist Church of Burlington is the other.) The congregation developed from a group of local residents who held prayer services in the home of one of the members. A combination church and school building was erected in 1884, which was replaced by the present building in 1922.