Tag: Richard Pitman

• A Woman in the Shadow

  

  Louisa was born around 1810 to a woman enslaved by John McCluer, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian elder in Rockbridge County, Virginia, who was also her father. When McCluer’s daughter Nancy married James Alexander in 1820, Louisa would meet Alexander’s enslaved man named Archer Alexander. Louisa and Archer would marry …

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  March 9, 2023

  Freedom

  Archer Alexander, Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum, James Alexander, James Naylor, John McCluer, Louisa Alexander, Muhammad Ali, Richard Pitman, Sophie McCluer, St. Peters UCC, Wesley Alexander, William Campbell, William Greenleaf Eliot

• January 1863

  

  On a frigid January night in ‘63, nightfall came just about dinnertime. Under the cloak of darkness, several area secesh men met in the backroom of James Naylor’s store, just north of Dardenne Creek on Boone’s Lick Road. Missouri winters can be brutal, and the windswept prairie was especially cold and windy that year. Like…

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  January 21, 2023

  1863

  Archer Alexander, Dardenne, James Naylor, January, Louisa, Missouri, Peruque Creek, Richard Pitman, St. Charles County