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 masters and given land in Lawrence County, Ohio, died here recently. He was born in Orange County, Virginia.

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