First of Two Group Escapes

CASS COUNTY- Enslaved people from slaveholders in Boone County and Kenton County (Buckner, Graves, Cleveland, Lindsay, Stephens, Sanford, Scott, Timberlake) escaped in two groups. The first was about 22 people on 24 April 1847. The Underground Railroad in Michigan, by Carol E. Mull; Licking Valley Register, Covington, Ky; 26 April 1847; Debian Marty, Associate Professor, California State University, Monterey Bay