Abolition in the Archives #4

Obituaries:

Samuel Bowne Parsons (1819-1906) and Robert Bowne Parsons (1821-1898)

Former Bowne House resident Samuel Bowne Parsons died in 1906 at the age of 86. The second page of his Flushing Times obituary contains a paragraph memorializing his Underground Railroad activities, as does the obituary of his younger brother, Robert Bowne Parsons (below.)

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Former Bowne House Resident Robert Bowne Parsons died in 1898 at the age of 77. His obituary in the Flushing Times also notes his Underground Railroad activity decades earlier.

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