Emily Thomas Tubman married in Georgia in 1818. Her husband died in 1836, after which she gave her slaves the choice of remaining as paid servants or being freed to join the colony of Liberia, established by emancipationists in the west coast of Africa. Of her 144 slaves, 75 chose to stay and the rest went to Liberia. The Thomas sisters lived in Paris and were members of the Paris Christian Church. Mrs. Tubman started a free school in Paris behind the Christian Church at its old location and donated generous sums to the Frankfort and Paris Christian Churches. She died in 1885. Courtesy of Hopewell Museum.