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African American History from Lawrence County Ohio

Your 100% Free Genealogy and Historical Resource for Southern Ohio


    Compiled by: Martha J. (Kounse) Martin, Sharon Kouns, and others

    • t3bul311 (1K) Aleck Tolliver Who Remembered Slave Tunnel Into Ohio, Dies

    • t3bul311 (1K)Old Aleck, Horse Lover and Ex-Slave Has Rich Memory: Take His Word For It "You Can't Beat the Ponies"

    • t3bul311 (1K)Slavery, Society News, etc. Found in Old Newspapers

    • t3bul311 (1K) More Slave Stories from Old Newspapers

    • t3bul311 (1K)Obituaries of former slaves: Albert Holt, Benjamin Reynolds, Uncle Mose, Mrs. Matilda Johnson, "Uncle" Tom McCaffney

    • t3bul311 (1K) Kentucky and Slavery

    • t3bul311 (1K)Poke Patch History

    • t3bul311 (1K)Stories of the Underground Railroad

    • t3bul311 (1K)Obituary of Lewis Brooks Sr., tells of his home being on the underground railway.

    • t3bul311 (1K)Enumeration of Blacks in Lawrence Co. Ohio 1863

    • t3bul311 (1K)The Exodus of the 37 Blacks from Va. to Burlington in 1849 - Short Story



    • t3bul311 (1K) Burlington, Ohio History

    • t3bul311 (1K) The Division of Property of the emancipated slaves of James Twyman

    • t3bul311 (1K) The Finley Family

    • t3bul311 (1K) Polly Negro Family

    • t3bul311 (1K) General Muster, Hotel Incidents, &c. - Short Story

    • t3bul311 (1K)How Some Runaway Slaves Were Not Caught - Short Story

    • t3bul311 (1K)Who Killed Andrew Boggs - Short Story

    • t3bul311 (1K) James Ditcher, An Underground Railroad Conductor Interviewed



    • t3bul311 (1K) George Wilson Story, Part One

    • t3bul311 (1K) George Wilson Story, Part Two

    • t3bul311 (1K)George Wilson Story, Part Three

    • t3bul311 (1K) Macedonia Church - Macedonia

    • t3bul311 (1K) Macedonia Church - Burlington

    • t3bul311 (1K)The First Iron Furnace This story tells about a runaway slave killing John Bruce; also speaks of Thos. W. Means being an abolitionist.

    • t3bul311 (1K)Bloody Affair "This story was found in the Oregon Spectator Newspaper, December 12, 1850. The paper quotes the Ohio Journal. The actual incident happened July 15, 1850. As the Ironton Register didn't begin until August 1, 1850, this is a part of history that would have been lost forever had these newspapermen not recorded it in the far west."

    • t3bul311 (1K)Colored Boys Leave for Camp Sherman, Ohio.


    • t3bul311 (1K) Mt. Pisgah Cemetery - Rome Twp.



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