Garner, Margaret

Title: Garner, Margaret
Alias: Peggy
Gender: Female
Biography: 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.; Garner's story became the basis of the novel 'Beloved', by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.
Member: Garner family
Birth date: circa 1834
Place of birth: Boone County (Ky.)
Spouse(s): Garner, Robert
Child(ren): Garner, Mary [1]; Garner, Priscilla; Garner, Samuel; Garner, Thomas
Death date: 1858
Place of death: Tennessee Landing (Issaquena County, Ms.)
Participant in: 1856--The Margaret Garner Story
Related resource: BCPL bibliography for Margaret Garner [PDF]; BCPL local history file: Garner, Margaret [PDF]
Member of: Richwood Presbyterian Church (Richwood, Ky.)
Relationship: Slaveholder(s): Gaines, John Pollard; Gaines, Archibald K.; Gaines, John Pollard; Gaines, Archibald K.
Source(s): Ancestry.com; Kentucky Birth Records, 1852-1910

Item sets: AA--Margaret Garner story--Enslaved; AA--Enslaved--Kentucky--Boone County--G; AA--CCDI--Persons--Added information

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