This is a quote from the "History of Clarion County, PA", speaking of the Underground Railroad:
Mr. McAuley kept the "contrabands" in his barn, and under cover of darkness generally, sometimes in the twilight -- through by paths --he, or his eldest son, brought them to the house of James Fulton, a member of his congregation, who lived a little north of Rimersburg. Mr. Jackson Fulton, his son, in speaking of the first party says, "One of these was a powerful man; stood six feet, three or four inches, and weighed 240 or 250 pounds; he told me that frequently when his master would go to whip him, he would catch him and hold him, and thereby he escaped many a whipping." The last, a twain, came in the spring of 1855. Mr. Fulton says, "One of these left a wife; he told me if the Lord spared him to get through he would return and steal her. I said to him he would certainly be running a great risk. He said he would risk his life that they might enjoy their freedom together." Mr. James Fulton fed and cared for the fugitives, and then conveyed them by wagon to Benjamin Gardner, Sr., of Licking township, two or three miles north of Callensburg.
According to William Fulton, two descendants of James Fulton found the original sandstone tombstone, faded and broken, in the Rimersburg Seceder Presbyterian Cemetery after searching many Clarion County cemeteries. The two (Homer and James Fulton) replaced the stone with the updated one.
Fulton's first wife was Jane Templeton Reed, whom he married on March 19, 1805. She died in 1833 and is very likely buried in the Seceder Cemetery near Mechanicsburg.
This is a quote from the "History of Clarion County, PA", speaking of the Underground Railroad:
Mr. McAuley kept the "contrabands" in his barn, and under cover of darkness generally, sometimes in the twilight -- through by paths --he, or his eldest son, brought them to the house of James Fulton, a member of his congregation, who lived a little north of Rimersburg. Mr. Jackson Fulton, his son, in speaking of the first party says, "One of these was a powerful man; stood six feet, three or four inches, and weighed 240 or 250 pounds; he told me that frequently when his master would go to whip him, he would catch him and hold him, and thereby he escaped many a whipping." The last, a twain, came in the spring of 1855. Mr. Fulton says, "One of these left a wife; he told me if the Lord spared him to get through he would return and steal her. I said to him he would certainly be running a great risk. He said he would risk his life that they might enjoy their freedom together." Mr. James Fulton fed and cared for the fugitives, and then conveyed them by wagon to Benjamin Gardner, Sr., of Licking township, two or three miles north of Callensburg.
According to William Fulton, two descendants of James Fulton found the original sandstone tombstone, faded and broken, in the Rimersburg Seceder Presbyterian Cemetery after searching many Clarion County cemeteries. The two (Homer and James Fulton) replaced the stone with the updated one.
Fulton's first wife was Jane Templeton Reed, whom he married on March 19, 1805. She died in 1833 and is very likely buried in the Seceder Cemetery near Mechanicsburg.
Family Members
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Mary Fulton Henry
1806–1880
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Cochran Miles Fulton
1808–1892
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Joseph Reed Fulton
1810–1891
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Henry E. Fulton
1811–1892
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Nancy Fulton Thompson
1815–1885
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David Fulton
1816–1895
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William Templeton Fulton
1817–1878
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Elizabeth W Fulton Kirk
1824–1902
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Salina M. Fulton Gardner
1827–1917
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James Jackson Fulton
1829–1909
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John M. Fulton
1840–1891
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Sarah E. Fulton Cooper
1843–1920
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