Henry and Louisa Picquet Burials at Samarian (Good Samaritan) Cemetery
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.
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Is Henry and Louisa Picquet Burials at Samarian (Good Samaritan) 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
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.
Why this file matters
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.
Documented history
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.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceHenry 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.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceThe 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.
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
UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.