Juliet Miles
Juliet Miles had been enslaved in Kentucky and was freed in 1851, and before that she cared for her enslaver's infant son. In 1858 she returned to Kentucky to try to bring her children and grandchildren out of slavery, but they were captured before reaching Ohio and held in the Bracken County jail. She was later held at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort, where she died about two years afterward. Historian Caroline Miller attributes her death to grief. One of her children born after her liberation, Henry, lived in Ohio and joined the Union Army during the Civil War.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Historian Caroline Miller attributes her death to grief, saying she died of a broken heart.
Reported by: historian Caroline Miller.