Ohio archæological and historical quarterly (1887)
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society · Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe · leaf 328
dnt we drink from his well before start-ing the long downhill trip back to town? It was the same well Marking the Old Abolition Holes: 315 from which the fugitive negroes refreshed themselves on ar-rival. Then, as we sat there, they recounted incidents of old slavedays down in Ripley. Every house… … The Rankin Homestead. But, meanwhile they spun the story of the old dwelling asit was told by Captain R. C. Rankin, one of the abolitionistsseven sons, some years ago. My fathers prime service to thefugitives, he said, was to furnish food and shelter. His sons, of whom there were nine, did the…
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