Archivist Locates Graves of Douglass’ Kin

Bob Cox spotted This One from down the Thruway in Rochester on Frederick Douglass.

A volunteer archivist made a breathtaking discovery of the long-forgotten graves of Frederick Douglass’ eldest daughter, Rosetta, and her family.


The scribbled name of Alice Louisa Sprague sent Jean Czerkas scampering through a well-traveled section of sprawling Mount Hope Cemetery, a half-mile from where Douglass was buried in 1895.

Douglass, the anti-slavery crusader, spent 25 of his most influential years as an orator and abolitionist in Rochester, publishing The North Star journal on Main Street.