Memorial Headstone of Joseph Love, Soldiers Circle, Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Ohio

ID: 686 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight ~ Date: 2020
This file appears in: Portsmouth's African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Underground Railroad

Joseph Love, a long-time member of Portsmouth's AME Church, was a key Underground Railroad conductor in the 1850s, providing a safe house north of town in Huston Hollow and helping transport freedom seekers to the next station at Pee Pee Prairie in Pike County. Love's connection with the AME Church in Portsmouth documents the important role its members played in the city's interracial network of Underground Railroad workers.

This file appears in: Portsmouth's African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Underground Railroad