Liberetta Lerich

LoiS brings Liberetta Lerich Green to the 21st century in words from Liberetta's oral history, newspaper accounts, letters, and other research tied together with the abolition song sung at the planting of the "Beacon Tree" that marked the Lerich family Underground Railroad station in Shelby Township, Michigan.  Her brothers, Will and Isaac, served in the Civil War while Liberetta was active on the homefront.   Letters by and about the family are interwoven with that same song now transformed to "Lincoln and Liberty."  Liberetta is moved exactly 100 years into the present which is why she is currently in deep mourning over the loss of her husband, Addison Green, a Macomb county farmer and her father, Peter Daniels Lerich, who operated Springhill Farm and the Beacon Tree Underground Railroad station.  Her parents, besides being known abolitionists, were Michigan pioneers in 1835, so Liberetta has their story to tell, too, or can discuss life of 100 years ago.                                                                                                 

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Other  Historical Programs

Beacon Tree (Liberetta's oral history)

"Roll on the Liberty Ball"

"Lincoln and Liberty, Too"