abolitionists
This is the grave of Ovid Butler. Born in 1801 in Augusta, New York, Butler grew up around there until he was sixteen, when the family moved west to the.
This is the grave of Levi Coffin. Born in 1798 in Guilford County, North Carolina, Coffin grew up on the farms of that area. His family was Quaker and that.
This is the grave of Thomas Barber. Born in 1814 in Pennsylvania, Barber later moved to Indiana, where he worked in the wool clothing business. As was common for lots.
This is the grave of William Wells Brown. Brown was born into slavery in approximately 1814 to a planter in Kentucky. His mother was a slave woman who had seven.
This is the grave of Gerrit Smith. Born in 1797 in Utica, New York, he grew up wealthy. His father had married into the New York Livingston elite and made.
This is the grave of William Kelley. Born in 1814 in Philadelphia to a Quaker family, Kelley's father died when William was 2. That led to some very hard times.
This is the grave of Theodore Sedgwick. Born in 1746 to one of Massachusetts' oldest families, Sedgwick went to Yale but didn't graduate. Instead, he went to Great Barrington where.
This is the grave of William Lloyd Garrison. Born in 1805 in Newburyport, Massachusetts to dirt poor parents. His father, a sailor unemployed due to the Embargo Act of 1807,.
