{"id":3629,"slug":"king-family-cemetery-sardinia-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["King Cemetery is the '38 — the record pins Sardinia, but the plot lies south of Delta, Fulton County, the 'burial ground' that's the family station's. The 'fifteen' is the '48 — the 'William's freed' that's the sheltered fifteen months, the 'Buxton nucleus' that's the sailed to Canada '49. The 'integrated school' is the wondered — the 'first in Ohio' that's the Fraker's question, the 'barn services' that's the Sabbath Center.","The 'ridges' is the route — the 'Ridge Road' that's the Black Swamp's spine, the 'Henry County' that's the delivered from. The 'memorial stone' is the absent — the 'William buried Canada' that's the honored here, the 'unmarked graves' that's the road widening took. King is the network — the 'Bruce, Donahue, Kane' that's the intermarried station, the '1838-Civil War' that's the quarter century operating.","The file keeps King Cemetery: the fifteen sheltered, the integrated barn school, the swamp ridges, and the memorial for the Canada-buried.","King Family Cemetery is the archive's Ohio file — the station's graveyard."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["King Family Cemetery is the archive's Ohio file — where the station buried its own.","A cemetery keeps its network — the file's suggestion being that King's hold is the familial: the 'intermarried clans' that's the staffed the station, the 'fifteen freed' that's the rehearsed Buxton here, and the 'empty grave' that's the William honored in absentia."]}],"name":"King Family 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 family cemetery—where the Kings rest.","full_desc":"A cemetery in Sardinia, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom, King Family Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The family cemetery—where the Kings rest. HauntHunt files it with Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The grounds are open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Sardinia","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.007113,"lon":-83.802101,"coord_kind":"CITY","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. A cemetery in Sardinia, Ohio with this much on record gives the file real ground to stand on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","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":"King Family Cemetery is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. King Family 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. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. 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}}],"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":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}