peteanddelmar
2nd Lieutenant
- Joined
- Nov 29, 2014
- Location
- Missouri
I thought we were a free county in sea of slave counties but I was way wrong. According to the 1860 census now in the National Archives there were 340 slaves in my county at that time.
What got me looking was local lore about a doctor who treated slaves on the down low, and even helped some escape. I am talking to his gg granddaughter at a local nursing home where my dad lives now. She has paperwork and news clippings. Its actually pretty exciting.
When I was a teenager I helped clean up a slave cemetery near this man's practice of slaves who he couldn't help enough and payed for their burial. It was part of an FFA project.
Philip
What got me looking was local lore about a doctor who treated slaves on the down low, and even helped some escape. I am talking to his gg granddaughter at a local nursing home where my dad lives now. She has paperwork and news clippings. Its actually pretty exciting.
When I was a teenager I helped clean up a slave cemetery near this man's practice of slaves who he couldn't help enough and payed for their burial. It was part of an FFA project.
Philip