Chronicles of Boone County

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• Graves, Lloyd
• Ketchum, Cassie
  Cassie Ketchum was interviewed in Crawfordsville, IN, in 1891 about her time serving as a nurse to E.R.S Canby. She was born in Prince Georges County, Maryland, enslaved to Nancy Sprigg (possibly Ann Sprigg) then given to a young cousin of Sprigg, Dr. Israel Canby. She lived in Boone County (Ky.) for several years, and married twice in Boone. Her first husband was John Griffin. Her second husband was Andy Ketchum. She relocated to Indiana with Dr. Canby.
• unknown, Letta [2]
• Wood, Henrietta
  Henrietta Wood was born in Boone Co. and owned by the Tousey family. She was sold several times, then freed. She was kidnapped and sold south in 1853, having obtained her freedom only five years prior. She was held as a slave until the end of the Civil War, then served her former slaveholder for another four years before returning to Cincinnati in 1869. In 1870 she began the lawsuit against her captors that she ultimately won in 1878. She was awarded $2500.
• unknown, Wesley [7]
  In June of 1854, nine freedom seekers from the Crisler, Walton, Scott and Blankenbeker farms escaped, but were caught on free soil, in Cincinnati. Like many such cases occurring after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, much legal attention paid to them, with the focus of the case resting on habeas corpus. They were returned to their respective slave holders at the close of the case. Wesley was the son of Shadrach and Susan and the brother of John.
• unknown, Susan [13]
  In June of 1854, nine freedom seekers from the Crisler, Walton, Scott and Blankenbeker farms escaped, but were caught on free soil, in Cincinnati. Like many such cases occurring after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, much legal attention paid to them, with the focus of the case resting on habeas corpus. They were returned to their respective slave holders at the close of the case. Susan was the wife of Shadrach and the mother of Wesley and John.
• unknown, Sarah Jane
  In June of 1854, nine freedom seekers from the Crisler, Walton, Scott and Blankenbeker farms escaped, but were caught on free soil, in Cincinnati. Like many such cases occurring after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, much legal attention paid to them, with the focus of the case resting on habeas corpus. They were returned to their respective slave holders at the close of the case. Sarah Jane was the daughter of Almeda.
• unknown, John [40]
  In June of 1854, nine freedom seekers from the Crisler, Walton, Scott and Blankenbeker farms escaped, but were caught on free soil, in Cincinnati. Like many such cases occurring after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, much legal attention paid to them, with the focus of the case resting on habeas corpus. They were returned to their respective slave holders at the close of the case. John was the son of Shadrach and Susan, and the brother of Wesley.
• unknown, Almeda [6]
  In June of 1854, nine freedom seekers from the Crisler, Walton, Scott and Blankenbeker farms escaped, but were caught on free soil, in Cincinnati. Like many such cases occurring after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, much legal attention paid to them, with the focus of the case resting on habeas corpus. They were returned to their respective slave holders at the close of the case. Almeda was the mother of Sarah Jane and the wife of Lee.
• unknown, Ned [4]
  On February 4th, 1806, Jeremiah Kirtley left Ned to Mary Kirtley in his will. Ned appears in the inventory.
• unknown, Lewis [20]
• unknown, Shadrach [1]
  Shadrach was one of nine freedom seekers from the Crisler, Walton, Scott, and Blankenbeker farms to escape, and subsequently recaptured on free soil in Cincinnati.
• unknown, Lee [3]
• unknown, Anderson [7]
• Garner, Margaret
  In 1856 Margaret, along with her husband, their children and her husband's parents, fled enslavement. A posse located them in hiding in Cincinnati. Before they could be recaptured, Margaret killed her two-year-old daughter, Mary, and tried to kill her other three children as well, rather than have them returned to enslavement. A lengthy court battle ensued, but the group was returned to their slaveholders, and Margaret and the children were sold south.