Researcher, Author, Historian, Speaker/Lecturer: The Underground Railroad and the American Civil War E-Mail: burkehr@sbcglobal.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.

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• History of Captain W. W. McCarty's Prison Life, and Southern Prisons
   

• The Glorious 78th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

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• ESSAY ON LIBERIA

• LETT FAMILIES

• ORIGINS OF THE MELUNGEON APPALACHIAN SUB-CULTURE - A more plausible explanation for the origin of Melungeons

MUSEUM

• UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MUSEUM - Flushing, Ohio

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• COLLINS UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STATION

SOUTHEASTERN OHIO AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA

• MARIETTA, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU
   

• LEEVE HOUSE CAFE, MARIETTA, OHIO - Fine Dining and Historic Underground Railroad Exhibit

• THE 'SLAVE NARRATIVE' OF MRS. SARAH WOODS BURKE (1843-1940)

• CAJOE PHILLIPS - Blennerhassett Island Plantation
   

• ABOLITIONISTS DAVID PUTNAM, JR. - Marietta, Ohio
   

• WILLIAM "UNCLE BILLY" PEYTON - Lived to be 128 years-old
   

• JOHN NEWTON TEMPLETON - First African-American to graduate from Ohio University
   

• BARLOW UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STATION
   

• "PHAROAH"
   

• SLAVE WAGES - Revised and updated July 18, 1999
   

• SLAVERY IN THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY
   

• JAMES DAVIS - The First African-American Born in the Northwest Territory
   

• ABOLITIONISTS
   

• RICHARD MENTOR JOHNSON
   

• STAFFORD. OHIO
   

• TRADEGY ON THE MUSKINGUM RIVER
   

• GENERAL JOHN EATON
   

• MRS. FRANCIS DANA GAGE
   

• JUDGE EPHRIAM CUTLER
   

• CAPTAIN THOMAS WHEELER'S ESTATE
   

• STEPHEN BISHOP
   

• ROBERT CARTER, III
   

• THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT
   

• FORT PILLOW
   

• THE SULTANA DISASTER

• THE MARIETTA LEADER - Marietta's only locally owned newspaper

• AFRICAN AMERICANS IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO
   

• BEVERLY GRAY'S HOMEPAGE
   

• THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO
   

• WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO IN THE CIVIL WAR
   

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• OHIO'S HILL COUNTRY HERITAGE AREA

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• SLAVERY
   

• UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
   

• THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MUSEUM - Flushing, Ohio
   

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• HENRY ROBERT BURKE'S SOUTHEASTERN OHIO
   

• MT. PLEASANT, OHIO
   

• WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL - WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, OHIO
   

• RESTING PLACES OF UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS IN OHIO

HISTORY RESEARCH

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http://www.bjmjr.net/spl_report/interviews.htm

http://www.bjmjr.net/civwar/wash_hs.htm

Henry Robert Burke

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