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U.S. Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries: George White
This series contains registers of burials, records of deaths and interments, and other records concerning burials at U.S. Army posts and in national cemeteries. The series was digitized thanks to a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Cemetery Administration, the National Archives and Records Administration and Ancestry.com. It contains information on approximately 556,000 invididuals from 157 military cemetries and 33 soldiers' lots.
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U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: George White
From Ancestry.com, "The National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was instituted following the Civil War. The purpose of these homes was to provide a place for disabled American soldiers and sailors to live. Admission to a home was voluntary and soldiers could request which home they wanted to live in. Since admission was voluntary, soldiers could also choose when they wanted to leave, both temporarily and permanently. This database contains records from twelve National Homes. The majority of the records consist of historical registers, but other records included in this database are indexes to the historical registers, applications, admissions, deaths, burials, and hospital records."
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George White Attempts Escape (1898)
The son of Jennie Stephens and John "Felix" White. After an unsuccessful escape attempt ca. 1849, he was first sold to Webb Ross of Georgetown, KY with his mother and siblings, then possibly separated. Eventually, he was reunited with his mother and several siblings. He enlisted in the USCT and died in 1914 at a Disabled Veteran's Home in Leavenworth, KS.
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George White Attempts Escape (1896)
The son of Jennie Stephens and John "Felix" White. After an unsuccessful escape attempt ca. 1849, he was first sold to Webb Ross of Georgetown, KY with his mother and siblings, then possibly separated. Eventually, he was reunited with his mother and several siblings. He enlisted in the USCT and died in 1914 at a Disabled Veteran's Home in Leavenworth, KS.
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Mary Ann French
An article detailing the tale of Mary Ann French who escaped enslavement by Henry Bannister, and returned to "steal" her children. Decades after the Civil War, she returned to work for Mr. Bannister.
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Violence After Slaves' Capture
Freedom seekers were hidden in the home of an abolitionist. Once they were discovered, they were punished and the house was burned.
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Caroline Scott Obituary
The 1904 obituary of Caroline Scott includes the tale of her family's escape.
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Boat Explosion
Eight men, including three African American men, perished with a boat explosion.
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George and Edmund Sold South!
An article describing the sale of two enslaved persons and their escape.
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Old Fashioned Folks
The article states that "Evan Corneal born in Boone County, Ky., went to Missouri in 1857 and came here in 1864. Twelve children have been borne to him, four of them are buried here. He owns his home at 105 Kickapoo street."
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How They Came Here
An article describing the escape of Evan Corneal and other men on June 28 and their crossing of the Missouri River into "the land of the free," Kansas. The article tells of their adjustments to society, to include employment and social intergration into a welcoming town.
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Slave Stampede
From the article, "Nine slaves absconded from Boone county. Ky , on Sunday They
are supposed to be concealed in this oity."
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Later--Another Escape of Slaves
An article detailing the escape of nine slaves from two different slaveholders out of Covington, Ky.
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Underground Railroad: More Western Memories. Piatt Coachman Escapes To Indiana
From the article, "[Woodford] was suspected of having aided in the escape of the slave of a man naemd Piatt, in Boone County Ky. The runaway was the coachman of the Piatt family and was missed early in the morning. A posse started in search of him. They traced him to and across the Ohio and into Indiana about five miles from Barkshire's depot. Shortly after the hunders reached the Indiana shore they met a man whom they questioned as to whether he had seen the runaway, giving a description of him. This man had seen young Barkshire only a short time before he met the hunters going toward the town, but alone. If he had been in company with the slave he had hidden him away. A watch was kept over his movements for some time, but he eluded the spies and finally succeeded in piloting the runaway out of their reach. This slave was never captured."
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Underground Railroad: More Western Memories. Two Young Women Escape
From the article, "After the Proclamation of Empancipation was promulgated a number of the runaways returned to and worked for their former masters in Kentucky, among the number being [...] two mulatto girls. Their old masters' farms were homes for them and amid all their wanderings they did not forget old associations."
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Underground Railroad: More Western Memories. Five Freedom Seekers
From the article, "One day, in 1852, a great hue and cry was raised over the escape of five slaves-three men and two women-from the farm of Squire James Stevens, of Boone County, Ky., about ten miles fro the Ohio river. They were traced to the river but there the clow was lost. Their owner naturally supposed that they had succeeded in crossing the river, and a large reward was offered for their capture. The slave hunters were out in force on the Indiana side. They searched the town above mentioned, the woods, and even Barkshire's house, but no runaways were to be found. Years afterward, Mrs. Hawkins revealed the fact that those five slaves had been secreted in her house-no one suspecting her at that time of being in league with her former slave."
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Underground Railroad: More Western Memories. Two Women Escape From Farmer Lodge
From the article, "Two slaves-young mulatto women-ran away from a farmer named Lodge, in Boone County. They were never captured, though search was kept up for them for months and $500 was offered for their return."
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Six Slaves Escape Across Frozen River
A notice published in the Barre Gazette, published out of Worchester, Massachussetts, which mentions the escape of six freedom seekers from enslavement by a slaveholder by the surname of Ransom.
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Twenty-one Escape to Canada
A notice in the Alton Weekly Courier that twenty one enslaved persons escaped to Canada with local help.
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Thirty-One Slaves Escape
A transcribed clip from the 7 Oct 1852 National Era paper stating the following: "Thirty-one slaves, from the neighborhood of Augusta and Dover, escaped to Ohio last night. They were traced to Ripley on the river, and were pursued by their owners and others from this side. The clothes taken by the slaves were concealed in a yard, and the owners were refused a warrant to search the house, in which it was supposed most of the slaves were hid. Five who had continued on were pursued by their masters, and three captured. They are expected to be brought over to-night. The negroes of Ripley assisted in numbers, armed with guns, and surrounded the hotel where the Kentuckians stopped. Fears are entertained of a serious disturbance, as the Kentuckians remain there on the watch, and are determined to recover the slaves. Much indignation is felt here, because the authorities of Ripley refused to assist the masters by granting warrants."
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Steamer Fined $1500 for Freedom Seeker Transport
A transcribed clip from the 22 Dec 1855 Covington Journal stating the following: "We learn from the Maysville Eagle that a judgment for some $1500 was obtained against the steamer Bostona in the Lewis Circuit Court last week for having taken off a slave belonging to Mrs. Eshom. The law of common carriers, always strict and severe when enforced, bears quite hard in this case, but it will make steamboats more careful as to whom they allow to travel with them."
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John Price
A detailing of the escape of John Price sourced from Roland M. Baumann, “The 1858 Oberlin-Wellington Rescue: A Reappraisal” (Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College, 2003).
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Reward Ad For Emily
A $100 reward ad seeking the capture and return of 17 year old Emily to Thomas. H. Williams.
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Two Freedom Seekers Reach Indiana
An exposition sourcing the 10 Sep 1833 Kentucky Family Mirror, of Carrollton, Ky describing a succesful escape to Indiana.
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Hoosier Farmer Gave Costly Help
This is an exposition composed with reference to the Indianapolis Star which describes the October 1847 escape of an enslaved woman named Caroline and her four children, and the aid they recieved from an Indiana farmer who was fined once their escape and collaboration was discovered.