Saw the First Steamboat That Went Down the Ohio River Nearly One Hundred Years Ago

Title: Saw the First Steamboat That Went Down the Ohio River Nearly One Hundred Years Ago
Is part of: Boone County Recorder, The
Publisher: Community Recorder
Place: Ft. Mitchell, KY
Date: 28-Aug-13
Language: English
Temporal coverage: 19-Aug-13
Description: The obituary of Jacob Strader which states that he "saw the first steamboat that went down the Ohio river nearly one hundred years ago. Jacob Strader, colored, said to be 95 years old, was followed to his grave last Tuesday afternoon by a large concourse of his colored friends. In slave times he was the property of the late John C. Riley, of Union neighborhood, and was an estimable, old time negro. The deceased claimed to have seen the first steamboat that went down the Ohio river, he being large enough to plow corn and was so engaged near the river."; Accessed online at the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/
Related resource: https://archive.org/details/Boone_County_Recorder_Vol_39_1913/page/n289/mode/2up?q=Strader

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