This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blackburn, Merritt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SNE.2ACIB/1245.1 Message Board Post: I have seen something recently about a Thorton Blackburn and wife who escaped to freedom in Canada from Kentucky. He started a transportation business there and was quite successful. When I have been looking for my white Blackburns I ran across them...I am sorry I don't remember the source...but it seems like it was a page that had several people, a William H. Merritt who worked with underground railroad and Harriet Tubman. Maybe search under something to do with Black History Month, or the Underground Railroad. In looking in Ky. I have seen Blackburns and Blackmons, and I specifically remember seeing them listed side by side. I have been looking in veterans lists, and free census records.