Wilson Bruce Evans
Oberlin Wellington rescuer. 83 days in jail. Never tried.
Lewis Sheridan Leary
Shot in the Shenandoah at Harpers Ferry. He was 24.
John Anthony Copeland
Hanged at Charlestown. Oberlin buried an empty coffin.
Dangerfield Newby
Came to free his wife and 7 children. The first raider killed.
Shields Green
Chose to stay with John Brown. Hanged beside Copeland.
Osborne Perry Anderson
The only Black raider who lived to tell it.
John Brown
“I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.” Frederick Douglass
Oliver Brown
Killed at Harpers Ferry at 20.
Watson Brown
Shot carrying a white flag. Unburied for 23 years.
Mary Ann Brown
John Brown’s wife. 13 children. Only 4 left.
Annie Brown
She was 15. She hid the raiders at the Kennedy Farm.
Ruth Brown Thompson
They hanged her father. They killed 3 of her brothers.