From the Archives: Obituaries:
James Kilgore

Mercer Dispatch and Republican, February 17, 1882

James Kilgore, Mercer County

Mr. James Kilgore died at his residence in this place, on Saturday last, at the ripe age of eighty-three years.  Mr. Kilgore had been a resident of Mercer for seventy years, and by his kindly disposition and consistent Christian life, was esteemed and beloved by all who knew him.  He was an earnest abolitionist when to avow such opinions was to invite ridicule and censure, and he helped many a fleeing slave over the “underground railroad” to safety and freedom.

Malvina Baxter

Abigail Vosburgh