Posted By:	Mary Hoegh
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	Subject:	Re: CUMMINGS in Fremont County
	Post Date:	January 13, 2006 at 17:41:22
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/ia/fremont/messages/267.html
	Forum:	Fremont County, IA Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/ia/fremont/

I volunteer summers at the George B Hitchcock House near Lewis, Cass county, IA. It was a station on the Underground Railroad. I am very much interested in the persons who helped with the Underground Railroad in Fremont County IA. My mother's family settled in Fremont County and that is the reason for my interest there. Anyway,The Menare Foundation, Inc Wilbur Siebert's Directory of Underground Railroad Operators Iowa: Fremont County lists Origin Cummings as one of the conductors. I have located Origin Cummings on the 1854 IA ST census as #75 of Tabor Farms. I have also located him on the 1860 census for IA>Fremont Co>Ross twp>Tabor. He was Household # 98 and Dwelling #83 on the 1860 census. I am trying to place the homes onto a platt map so I could see the route an escaping slave might have taken to Cass County and the home of Rev. Hitchcock. Is Origin Cummings one of your family members and can you give me any help as to where his farm would have been located in Ross Twp? Thanks for any help.