Richard Dillingham
- Born: 18 Jun 1823, Alum Creek Mm, Delaware, Ohio 1
- Died: 30 Jun 1850, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA at age 27 1
 General Notes:
There are courageous stories of Quaker involvement in the UGRR . To give one example, Richard Dillingham (June 18, 1823 \endash June 30, 1850) was a young Quaker from Peru Township, Morrow County, Ohio who was arrested in Tennessee during his attempted rescue of three slaves in 1848. He was sentenced to three years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville. While in prison he died of cholera. The Quaker poet, John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the poem " The Cross " in his honor.
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