Northeast Ohio

Abolitionist John Brown’s descendant is called a racist for cutting off a US Army colonel’s microphone as he spoke of him on Memorial Day in Hudson Ohio

CLEVELAND, OH – Cindy Marsh-Suchan can trace her bloodline to the very founding of the United States of America through an ancestor named Peter Brown whose arrival in North America is dated between 1565 and 1625.  One of his much later grandson’s born in 1800 was named John Brown the legendary abolitionist of Harper’s Ferry fame.   His abolitionist affiliations include Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Cindy Marsh-Suchan knows this information from stories she’s heard within her family.  Her mother, Martha Marsh, shared the historic lineage with a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch in 2019.  That year Hudson, Ohio’s mayor was…

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