I think one of the most amazing things about this line of my family tree is that it contains two black men who fought for the Union during the Civil War. And that we can trace old Uriah’s family in Ohio back to the first decade of the 19th century. We have been in Ohio so long, they should probably just change the name to Hodges. More interesting, I was going through the Rickman obits and property records trying to find names of cemeteries and locations of farms. Retta, one of Anna Belle’s, sisters died in Michigan in ’62 but the family bought her body back to be buried in a cemetery in a community referred to as “Carthagena.” Remember, a long time ago, I mentioned it was odd that the Harrison’s (mom’s side) and the Rickman’s both migrated from VA to Ohio in the first decade of the 19th? I also thought they might be part of the freed Randolph slaves from Virginia. I think the cemetery at Carthagena might be a good place to start the search because it turns out that community was founded as a community for free blacks! And the Rickmans are all from Mercer Co. From the Ohio Historical Society: “Carthagena was a predominantly African American community in Mercer County, Ohio. Augustus Wattles founded Carthagena in 1835 in Mercer Country near Sidney, Ohio. Wattles was a Quaker teacher who wanted to open a school for African Americans in the vicinity. He hoped that Carthagena would become a settlement for freed slaves from the South. A number of African Americans moved to the …