1850 Isaac Frampton Buys and Sells Property for Burlington 37 You can read the deed from Isaac Frampton, naming James Twyman's slaves here. While not directly related to Chesapeake’s History, this...
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Susan Spencer
Susan Spencer, a Direct Descendant to Share Slaves' Unusual Story Written by Melissa Rake For the Herald-Dispatch 4 April 1994 A copper kettle, a book, and some amazing stories. Those are the only...
Traveler Smith Obit
Freed Enslaved Person Dead The Capital Terminal, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, September 2, 1931 Huntington, WV. - Traveler Smith, 82-year-old, who was one of a group of enslaved people freed by their...
Books by Carrie Eldridge
Historical and Genealogical Books for Sale by Carrie Eldridge, author, teacher, geographer, speaker, and historical of Cabell County, WV, and the tri-state areas. Her experience is mostly...
Tried Stone Baptist Church Ironton Ohio
The Missionary Society of Triedstone Baptist Church held its monthly meeting Monday evening. Miss Effie Bryant, the president, deserves much credit for the excellent program she arranged. The subjects discussed, and addressed were very good, and the spirit exhibited showed that they were working in the right direction.
Squire Burvender
Squire Burvender was born in Surrey County, North Carolina, on March 3, 1827. He came to this county in 1856. His parents are Jacob and Talitha (Hill) Burvender, who settled in Lawrence county in...
How Some Slaves Weren’t Caught
About the year 1856, when Ironton was in her infancy, there came word to Burlington, Ohio, that some half dozen slaves had escaped from Kentucky, and that they would cross, it was supposed at or near Ironton.
General Fuller, Muster, Hotels, Burlington, etc.
General Fuller, Muster, Hotels, Burlington, etc.Ironton Register, Thursday, August 8, 1895 For the Register.With what anticipation did we boys await the time of general muster day when the...
Obituaries of Former Slaves
Last Sunday afternoon, Albert Holt, a well known colored man, was found dead in his bed, at his home, on Washington street. He was up and about on Sunday morning, and was last seen about 11 o’clock,
Lewis Brooks Sr. Obit
Lewis Brooks Sr., age 80 years, died last Saturday at his home on Centre Street. He was a well-known colored citizen of Red Hill, back of Proctorville, until about two years ago, when his property was burned and he moved to Ironton.
Theodore Wilson
Theodore Wilson was born in slavery, denied the advantages of modern schooling, persecuted by bigoted Negro haters, seriously injured in his youth, he
Civil Rights Bill 1874
the suspension of the public schools in Proctorsville, [sic] Lawrence county, we have received the Ironton Commercial, which confirms our report, only it shows that the imbroglio was even more complicated than we had at first supposed.
Collier and Davis Kidnapping
Two persons, named Collier and Davis, kidnapped a colored man in Lawrence County, Ohio, a few days ago.
Bloody Affray
Six Negro slaves who had escaped from their masters on the opposite side of the Ohio river, some eight or ten days previous, called on Josiah Crawford, who lives in Lawrence County, Ohio requesting him to show the road north.
Who Killed Andrew Boggs 1836
About sixty years ago there moved to what is now called Macedonia, a colored man named Andrew Boggs or Box, as the people called him. He came from North Carolina and had the blood of three races in his veins white, black, and red. His wife was almost white.