HENRY ROBERT BURKE'S
SOUTHEASTERN OHIO

Researcher, Author, Historian, Speaker/Lecturer: The Underground Railroad and the American Civil War

E-Mail: burkeh@charter.net

"Rockingham" John Curtis was born a slave in Rockingham County, Virginia in 1830. He died a free man on his own land in Monroe County, Ohio in 1914. He left behind him his wife Jane Early Curtis and several generations of descendants born into a tradition of overcoming adversity.
Laura Curtis was one of the daughters of "Rockingham" John and Jane Early Curtis. John Curtis was born a slave in 1830 but died a free man on his own land at Stafford, Ohio in 1914. Laura was born on that land in 1877 but died very young, at age 17, in 1894.

THE RIVER JORDAN
By Henry Burke and Dick Croy

From back cover:

"It was dangerous enough for a strong man, traveling alone, to flee from slavery. For a woman with a large family, the feat was nothing less than extraordinary. But it actually happened."

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SOUTHEASTERN OHIO AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA

PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING SITES:

Henry Robert Burke

Member of:
The General Benjamin D. Fearing Sons of Union Civil War Veterans Camp #2 (Historian),
and the
OHIO BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION'S Underground Railroad and Civil War Advisory Councils

Phone: (740) 373-0218

E-Mail: burkeh@charter.net

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