{"id":3630,"slug":"henry-and-louisa-picquet-burials-at-samarian-good-samaritan-cemetery-decatur-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Samarian is the conductors' cemetery — the Picquets' graves among the USCT dead, the unmarked plot for Louisa. The 'Octoroon' was her story — the 1861 narrative that bought her mother, the inside views of the domestic life. The safe house was the work — the Cincinnati station they ran, the New Richmond move in '67.","The soldiers are the company — the nineteen Black veterans, the 27th USCT who fought at Petersburg. The unmarked is the irony — the woman who wrote her story, the grave that has no stone. Samarian is the abolitionists' rest — the Picquets who helped others flee, the cemetery that keeps the conductors.","The file keeps Samarian Cemetery: the Picquet burials, the USCT soldiers, the unmarked grave, and the 'Octoroon' narrative.","Samarian is the archive's Clermont file — the conductors' cemetery."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Samarian is the archive's Clermont file — the Underground Railroad conductors' graves.","A cemetery keeps its helpers — the file's suggestion being that Samarian's hold is the unmarked: the woman who wrote of slavery, the conductors buried there, and the soldiers who surround them."]}],"name":"Henry and Louisa Picquet Burials at Samarian (Good Samaritan) Cemetery","aliases":[],"type":"CEMETERY","type_label":"Cemetery","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","CEMETERY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["cemeteries","dark-history"],"desc":"The Picquets’ graves—where the freed family rests.","full_desc":"Henry and Louisa Picquet Burials at Samarian (Good Samaritan) Cemetery is a cemetery in Decatur, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom. The Picquets’ graves—where the freed family rests. The archive files it under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The grounds are open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Decatur","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"NPS Network to Freedom","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Henry and Louisa Picquet Burials at Samarian (Good Samaritan) Cemetery's history is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the ghost stories. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"Henry and Louisa Picquet Burials at Samarian (Good Samaritan) Cemetery is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Henry and Louisa Picquet Burials at Samarian (Good Samaritan) Cemetery's history is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the ghost stories. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"The Picquets’ story is documented. The burial ground's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Public cemetery; generally open during daylight hours. Be respectful of active burials; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Underground Railroad","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":3,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}