Lydia Ann Parks

Birth Date

c1801

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Resident in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863. Employed Mattie Johnson as a house servant in Louisville in 1863. Indicted for aiding in the escape of an enslaved boy and girl to Jeffersonville, Indiana, in Louisville, Kentucky, in September 1863. Pardoned by Thomas E. Bramlette on March 1, 1865.

"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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