Portrait of William Veach

ID: 749 ~ Source: Nelson W. Evans, A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio (Portsmouth, Ohio, 1902).

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…