In memory of Ossie E Smith.

Biography of the reputed President of the Underground Railroad. Begins briefy with Levi Coffin's early efforts against slavery in North Carolina and Indiana. The focus is on Coffin's abolitionist activities in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1847 through the Civil War and his work on behalf of freed blacks after the war.

This history, written to commemorate 125 years of Bear Creek Friends Church, located in Randolph County, Indiana, contains the early history of the Quakers in that area of Indiana, along with histories of the pastorate, the Sunday school, youth and women's groups, church officers and revivals, as well as biographies of several of the Church's "weighty" Quakers. The final appendix includes a list of all Church members from 1874 to 1999.