Memorial for William Veach (1794-1866), Friendship Cemetery, Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio

ID: 535 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D. ~ Date: 2021

This file appears in: James M. Ashley and the Underground Railroad in Friendship, Ohio

This file appears in: James M. Ashley and the Underground Railroad in Friendship, Ohio

James M. Ashley and the Underground Railroad in Friendship, Ohio

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

In 1841, a seventeen-year-old James M. Ashley conducted a group of seven African American freedom seekers from Greenup County, Kentucky, down the Ohio River, past Portsmouth, Ohio, to the West Side of…