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in llit- day tune; bucst night he talked to his fellow slaves and soon per-sundeu ten or twelve of the young 'tnen to undertake to escape with him. Kverytling being arranged, •one night, about mid-night. they al -stalled north ward. Jno.’s wife and• three children with them. Tin- ex--,j«m ienee, gained by Jim on his pre-% iuus tMp, enabled him to successfully jii'ot his filet is through, and. passing safely fn-in-station to station, tW^soon reaefied Canada, 'i'te last account of Jim,d ever bad, reported him as-doing well and living happily.• Jim was not the only slave forwarded So freedom by'the kind hearted agents of the Underground R. R-The route vms kept hot by escap. ing slaves. Asa Bales was president end George Robertson, treasurer, of the organ ir.ation. Bales lived at; ■Mooresville and did all tk rorres-! ponding. -Front Kvansvii.- and t in-cinnati, there were shout thirteen idifferent routes, by oh tub escaping ; J] slaves were sent to the north. The L,'13Csouthern stations of these routes j were always eight or nine fniles in- j land fiom the Uhio river. Bales, the! ■president of the Mooresville route, moved to Hamilton county, entered land and laid out a town, which he ^ called Westf.eln. Here lie establish -ed a-station for skives and carried on , a busy work until death. He was a, noble man. I was but a bov of fit-teen or sixteen, when these eventsJ Iwere taking place, and although it! J] was intended to keep them a secret! at the time, vet I have heard the old i:Q pioneers talking them over. FJi J.t.Sumner was also a small boy then, but he told me tha other day That- he remembered well the incidents of £‘those days, and that he had seen and ’ talked with some 01 the escaping -slaves. Wn.. K. Carter, who lived six miles south of Monrovia., was at!good depot mat, and took several• -slave.3 through that town. If I sho’d faI. ■! will Bwrite any more on lhis subject, •undertake to give an account of the road that-started at Cincinnati and ran north by the way of Richmond. .Several startling incidents occurred • on that route. J. V. Cv.ktkh. : J To be continued.t:cWa.vtkd. to trade a J year old :iiborse for a good cow. j J}S. A. Plummer.‘West Newton.b
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Mooresville Guide
Mooresville, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 09, 1894
Page 5
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Thomas H.
IN, USA 06 Apr 2025
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