David and Mary Hartin Stormont Burials at Archer Cemetery
David and Mary Hartin Stormont Burials at Archer Cemetery is a historic site in Princeton, Indiana, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. HauntHunt files it with dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.
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Is David and Mary Hartin Stormont Burials at Archer Cemetery haunted?
No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.
The record — long form
On February 18, 1851, Seth Concklin wrote to William Still in Philadelphia from Princeton, Indiana, pricing out the boldest job of his life — rowing up the Tennessee to bring out Peter Still's wife Vina and their children, enslaved in Alabama. The letter is a conductor's logistics sheet, and David Stormont's name — misspelled 'Stormon' — is its fixed point: a Reformed Presbyterian farmer a mile northwest of Princeton who would 'take the command' once Concklin got the family to the Wabash, and who estimated forty dollars would carry them to Canada.
The route that held anyway
Concklin got the family as far as Indiana before slave catchers took them back; Concklin himself was chained, put aboard a southbound steamboat, and never seen alive again — one of the white abolitionists the work killed outright. The Stormont station kept running. Grandson Gil Stormont's Gibson County history records the standing instruction David gave his guests: go toward Vincennes and 'look for Sugar Loaf Hill' — the thirty-foot mound on the town's edge — where the next station waited. Charles Grier, a Black farmer thirteen miles east, ran the segment before him; the two graves, Grier's at Antioch near Owensville and David and Mary Hartin Stormont's at Archer Cemetery in Princeton, went on the Network to Freedom together in 2019.
The file's entry is a pair of burial plots holding the two ends of a sixteen-mile leg — the ground where the letter's arithmetic was finally honored.
Two accounts on file
HISTORIC_SITE
CEMETERY
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NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.
The Stormonts’ graves—where the conductors rest.
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National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
NPS Network to Freedom
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Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 38IN02, source row 600. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.
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Documented history
NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. David and Mary Hartin Stormont Burials at Archer Cemetery's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceDavid and Mary Hartin Stormont Burials at Archer Cemetery is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. David and Mary Hartin Stormont Burials at Archer Cemetery's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceThe Stormonts’ work is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.
Verified historyNational Park Service
Sources on file
- 01Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01National Park Service · government · A1
- 02NPS Network to Freedom listingNational Park Service · government · A1
- 03Underground RailroadWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
Field notes & open questions
Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 38IN02, source row 600. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.