Daniel Osborn (1797 - 1881)

Born 5 Dec 1797 in New York

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Husband of Lydia (Wood) Osborn — married 30 Sep 1819 in Ohio

Died 30 Jul 1881 at age 83 in Morrow Co., Ohio

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• Daniel /OSBORN/

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Birth 5 December 1797 New York

Death 30 July 1881 Morrow Co., Ohio

PARENTS Father David /OSBORN/

Mother Ann /BENEDICT/

MARRIAGES (4) Spouse Lydia /WOOD/

Marriage 30 September 1819 2

Anneke Jans 5-10-2000.FTW tap.ged

Spouse Deborah /WILLIAMS/

Spouse Charity /BRADY/

Spouse Ruth /COMFORT/

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OHS.It has been affirmed by a former Underground operator at Marengo that Eliza and her child, the famous characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, came there after the young mother's thrilling adventure in crossing the Ohio River to Ripley on floating cakes of ice with her infant in her arms. He also said that she undertook the hazardous adventure in order to avoid the pangs of separation from her child, which had been sold to a slave-trader by her master,and added that they were sent safely on to Canada. The number of station keepers in the Alum Creek settlement was six at least and probably nine or ten. One of these, Daniel Osborn, kept a record of the number of fugitives received by him during five months,namely, from April 14 to September 10, 1844 (for the facsimile of this record see the writer's volume entitled The Underground Railroad, pp. 344-345). It amounted to forty-five. Most of these fugitives were from Kentucky, but two colored boys were from Virginia. Under date of August 16 Daniel notes that a colored man had gone from Gilead (probably Mt. Gilead) back to Kentucky and returned with his wife and child and his wife's sister. Eight days later he records that a colored woman, who had been to Canada, returned to the same state and brought back four of her children and one grandchild. The last item of the memorandum is dated September 10 and is to the effect that a yellow man from Kentucky had been caught near Cratty's house and carried back to slavery. It seems likely that during this period of five months all the station keepers in the Friends' settlement on Alum Creek had cared for not less than two hundred runaway Negroes. CITING THIS RECORD The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:39BW-2L8 : accessed 2015-12-02), entry for Daniel /OSBORN/. PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE Person Count 25,669

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