An Elderly Couple Spent Their Last $3 on a Tiny Structure and No One Understood Why at First

the quarter acre they now owned. “Do you know who Josiah Whitmore was?”

Adeline shook her head. Silas folded his hands on the table and waited.

Emily sat down. “He was a Quaker farmer in this county in the 1840s and 1850s. He’s mentioned in a few abolitionist records from the period, but nobody has ever been able to confirm his role definitively because continue reading …