Mattie Johnson

Birth Date

c1836

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, servant. Employed by Lydia Ann Parks as a house servant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863. Indicted for aiding the escape of an enslaved boy and girl to Jeffersonville, Indiana, in Louisville in September 1863. Subject of an affidavit affirming her innocence written by William Henry Stokes and C. M. Metcalf in Louisville in November 1863. Pardoned by Thomas E. Bramlette on January 27, 1864.

"Kentucky's Underground Railroad: Passage To Freedom,"KET Education, https://www.ket.org/education/resources/kentuckys-underground-railroad-passage-freedom/ (accessed February 27, 2020).
"Louisville Daily Journal, 1863-09-16," Internet Archive, https://archive.org/stream/xt71ns0kvz53/xt71ns0kvz53_djvu.txt (accessed February 27, 2020).

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