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5 days ago · Shortly after the execution, John Brown’s body was put in a wooden casket with a noose still around his neck and sent to North Elba where he was buried on December 8th, six days after he was hung.
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- John Brown
Abolitionist, Folk Figure. He led a controversial raid on Harpers Ferry, (West) Virginia in October 1859 with the purpose of freeing enslaved African-Americans and starting a servile insurrection in the South. When the raid failed, he was captured, tried, convicted, and executed.
There have been three burials on the John Brown Farm: John Brown himself, buried on December 8, 1859, immediately after his execution. Watson Brown, one of John Brown's sons, died 1859, buried in 1882. His body was brought for burial by his mother; it was her first visit to the farm since leaving it in the early 1860s.
May 18, 2024 · As the funeral party rattled northward, they passed through the quiet countryside of Harford County, transferring onto the ferry at Havre de Grace and then passed the Elkton station at 10.40 a.m.
A life-sized white marble statue of John Brown is on the former campus of the Western University at the Quindaro Townsite in Kansas City, Kansas. The Western University campus hosted the John Brown statue. In 2007 Brown was inducted into the National Abolition Hall of Fame, in Peterboro, New York.
Brown was captured on October 18, 1859, imprisoned at Charlestown, Virginia, tried by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and hanged on December 2, 1859. His body was returned to North Elba and was buried in front of his home on December 8, 1859.
Sep 8, 2020 · The John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake Placid, New York offers a look at the life of this famous abolitionist. It's also the spot where Brown was buried after he was executed for treason.
