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Aaron Dyer – Underground Railroad “Freedom Train” Conductor – Buried in Logan County Aaron lived in Springfield, Illinois in the 1840’s and 1850’s. He was listed in a Springfield City Directory as a drayman. A drayman was a teamster of the day. A dray is a wagon designed to haul larger and heavier loads. Aaron and his wife Harriett, moved to Lincoln to be closer to family after the Civil War. Aaron is buried in Jones Addition of Union Cemetery. He has a headstone that has an inscription recognizing that he was a conductor. The stone has been cleaned in the recent past. PP 49-50 coln, IL, May 7, 1903]

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LCGHS Presence on Youtube - Updated. LCGHS has the following videos on Youtube. The videos are listed in the order in which they were posted. Youtube seems to present them in random order. Sometimes the sequence is important. Some videos are informative, some are instructional, and some are just fun. If you are reading this on a computer, just click on the link. Future R&B’s will have a short update on the videos posted since the previous R&B. Click here to go there. https://www.youtube.com/@logancoil1839 Bill Gossett, Days of Yore, Part 1
https://youtu.be/Ji6giMNqWyA Bill Gossett, Days of Yore, Part 2 https://youtu.be/MvjfLJ1EnDI Bill Gossett, Days of Yore, Part 3 https://youtu.be/TXwF69NXxXQ Civil War Stories # 13 Co. F, 38th IL Inf https://youtu.be/19exa1KkBJg Civil War Stories # 14 Fredericktown, MO https://youtu.be/qxIm1Gkdgmc Catholic Churches of Logan County Pt. 1 https://youtu.be/gca5V15V0Jg Catholic Churches of Logan County Pt. 2 https://youtu.be/2Oim6QLXHSw

“There will be a general change over to lighter motors and cars as all now realize that economy and gasoline and tires can be had more readily in this way than further work on the carbureters". P70
“Kansas City Mo., April 27, ’82. “Ed Herald: - Jas. A. and E. G. Hudson, Col. Latham, Prof. B. F. McCord and the writer started on the evening of the 26th inst., for a brief look at the topology of western Kansas and intervening points. P66
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How to Prevent The Spread of Smallpox Lincoln Herald, Lincoln, Illinois, Nov. 24,
1881, p74.

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