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Have come across an obituary for Mary Jane (Carter) STEARNS who died at Central City, CO, 27 Dec 1864 at the age of 46.
"She was the daughter of Thomas CARTER of Cumberland County, KY" She was born in Kentucy and married "a Yankee Abolitionist" (Charles Stearns). . . "They were early pioneers to Kansas" "Their house was ever a home for the panting fugitive: one room, bearing the name of "Uncle Tom's room," was seldom unoccupied."
"In the days of the Kansas famine, the pressure of circumstances induced them to remove to Colorado.
She "leaves one little girl two and a half years of age, (All of her other children having gone before her,) and a deeply afflicted husband, to mourn their loss, which is her unspeakable gain." "R. W. S. "
The obituary contains additional information.
This is not my line but I would be interested in correponding with others researching this line as I am researching the Underground Railroad of Douglas County, Kansas.
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