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Rushville in Fairfield County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
 

Joe Selby

 
 
Joe Selby Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., August 3, 2019
1. Joe Selby Marker
Inscription.  

Fugitive slave who inspired
Ben Hanby to compose the
song "Darling Nellie Grey"

 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Abolition & Underground RRAfrican AmericansCemeteries & Burial Sites.
 
Location. 39° 45.571′ N, 82° 25.698′ W. Marker is in Rushville, Ohio, in Fairfield County. Marker is on Bashore Road NE, 0.1 miles south of Cincinnati Zanesville Road NE (U.S. 22), on the right when traveling south. Monument is in Pleasant Hill (AKA Rushville) Cemetery. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Rushville OH 43150, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Formerly Enslaved People (here, next to this marker); Bremen World Wars Memorial (approx. 3.9 miles away); Wesley Chapel (approx. 3.9 miles away); Bremen Oil Boom (approx. 4 miles away); First Mass in Ohio (approx. 4.8 miles away); Randolph Mitchell House / Reading Township, Perry County
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(approx. 5.3 miles away); Opal C. [nee Hatlestad] Kistler (approx. 5.4 miles away); Maple Grove Cemetery Veterans Memorial (approx. 5.4 miles away).
 
Also see . . .
1. Darling Nellie Grey. (Submitted on August 6, 2019, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.)
2. Pleasant Hill Cemetery at National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. (Submitted on August 6, 2019, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.)
 
Joe Selby Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., August 3, 2019
2. Joe Selby Marker
Monument closer to shed
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on August 6, 2019. It was originally submitted on August 6, 2019, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 236 times since then and 18 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on August 6, 2019, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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