Mary Rice
Posted on | August 14, 2009 | Comments Off
Mary Rice was a station master on the Underground Railroad who helped erect and regularly put flowers on John Jack’s grave. Along with Mary Peabody Mann, Mary Rice gathered hundreds of school children’s signatures on a petition to President Lincoln, asking him to end slavery. Copies of this petition and Lincoln’s response will hang in Concord’s 3 elementary schools in Fall 2009.Category: Historical Figures