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City of Alexandria, Virginia Public Hearing on Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery

Memorandum-VDHR-Richmond/Register Program
To: Alexandria Gazette
Attn: Andrea Smith/ Phone: 703-778-9411
Email: classified@connectionnewspapers.com

From: Marc Wagner, Designation Programs Manager,
Virginia Department of Historic Resources, (804-482-6099)
Email: marc.wagner@dhr.virginia.gov

Date: April 27th, 2012

Subject: Notice of Public Hearing for Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery, City of Alexandria

Please run the following notice in your Meetings section of Legal Notices:
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
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The Virginia Department of Historic Resources will hold a Public Information Hearing to discuss the proposed Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery nomination to the state and national registers, in City of Alexandria, VA. The Public Hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, May 16th, 2012, beginning at 7:00 p.m. at the Lloyd House, 220 South Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Public comment regarding the proposal will be taken at the time of the hearing or can be sent to: Director Kathleen Kilpatrick, VA Department of Historic Resources, 2801 Kensington Avenue, Richmond, VA 23221. This proposal has been recommended eligible for the Virginia Landmarks and National
Register. Proposals will be presented to the State Review Board and the Historic Resources Board on June 21, 2012 in Richmond, VA. For a copy of the proposal and/or a boundary map, contact Marc Wagner, VA Department of Historic Resources, 804-482-6099 or
marc.wagner@dhr.virginia.gov.
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Please address the bill for this notice to Tiffany Cunningham, accounts payable, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Administration Office, 10 Courthouse Avenue, Petersburg, VA 23803. Phone: 804-862-6193/ Email: tiffany.cunningham@dhr.virginia.gov / FAX: 804-862-6196.
Please send a confirmation of receipt of this memo and a price quote to Marc Wagner by FAX (804-367-2391), or by email: marc.wagner@dhr.virginia.gov.

Please send a certificate of publication or affidavit of publication to Tiffany Cunningham, Procurement Officer, VDHR Administrative Services, 10 Courthouse Avenue, Petersburg, VA 23803.

Thank you.

1945 Parker-Gray High School Teachers and Graduating Class

Parker-Gray 1945 Class
1945 Graduating Class of Parker-Gray High School

The Parker-Gray High School year of 1944 – 1945 had one principal and twenty-two teachers.

William H. Pitts, Sr. – Principal
A.W. Adkins – Math
Susie E. Anderson – Biology
Arthur W. Bracey – Shop
Mary C. Brown – Physical Education
Edith W. Casey – English
Flora W. Chase – Typing and Shorthand
Helen L. Day – Seventh Grade
Laura M. Dorsey – Third and Fourth Grades
Ellen C. Goods – Third Grade
Ferris Holland – Chemistry
Earleen L. Hughes – French and English
Louis R. W. Johnson – Physical Education
Dorothy P. Key – Librarian
Thelma Mickens – First Grade
Alma P. Murray – Second Grade
Edward Patterson – Music
Bernice J. Perry – Seventh Grade
Julia Pritchett – Fourth Grade
Mabel Lee Smith – Math
Ruby F. Smith – Home Economics
Geraldine Stevenson – Seventh Grade
Mary Tunstall – English and Social Studies

Above is a picture of Parker-Gray High School graduating class of 1945. Thirty-five students were in the Class of 1945.

Dorothy Anderson
Houston Brooks
Esther Brown (Thompson)
Audrey Butler
Earnest Carroll
Vernon Carroll
Mary Casey
Herbert Clayborne
Lorraine Cleveland (Bell)
Marjorie Cross
Vivian Cross (Johnson)
Pauline Dial (Jackson)
Jackquelyn Diggs
James Freeman
Catherine Harris (Wair)
Lorretta Harris
Evelyn Howard (Hopkins)
Doris Jackson (Adkins)
Edith Jackson (Williamson)
Clarence Lane
Marian Lawson
Rebecca Lewis (Freeman)
Robert Lewis
Julian Lyles
Mary Major (Fields)
Edgar McGee
Sherman McGuire
William Moore
Rubye Patterson
Walter Owens
Arthur Taylor
Augustine Taylor
Bessie Taylor (Faulker)
Jennie Triplett (Harris)
Maurice Williams
Katie Wright

1943 Parker-Gray High School Teachers and Graduating Class

Parker-Gray High School 1943
1943 Alexandria, VA Parker-Gray High School graduating class

The Parker-Gray High School year of 1942 – 1943 had one principal and twenty-two teachers.

William H. Pitts, Sr. – Principal
A.W. Adkins – Math
Susie E. Anderson – Biology
Arthur Bracey – Shop
Mary Carter – Girls Physical Education
Edith Casey – English
Helen Day – Fifth Grade
Laura Dorsey – Third Grade
Ellen C. Goods – Third Grade
Ferris Holland – Chemistry
Earleen Hughes – French
Louis Johnson – Coach & Industrial Arts
Dorothy Key – Librarian
Sarah Mickie – Social Studies
Thelma Mickens – Second & Third Grades
Alma P. Murray – Second Grade
Elease Newman – First Grade
E.L. Patterson – Music
Bernice Perry – Fourth Grade
Julia Pritchett – Fourth Grade
Mabel Lee Smith – Math & Science
Ruby F. Smith – Home Economics
Flora Walden – Commercial

Above is a picture of Parker-Gray High School graduating class of 1943. Twenty-four students were in the Class of 1943.

Roger Anderson
Mayme Brooks
Harry Burke
Mary Burney
John Burton
Elsie Charity
Irene Charity
Harold Chase
Connie Chissell
Marion Dixon
Thomas Griffin
Virginia Jackson
Raye Luckett (Martin)
Booker Morrison
Francine Nelson
Justine Newman
Robert Owens
Lewis Pearson
Gertie Sims (Harris)
William Thomas
Milton Turner
Horace Webster
Juanita Williams
Maude Willis

Descendants of the Alexandria Freedmen Cemetery

 In April 2008, the City of Alexandria, Virginia asked me to assist them in locating descendants of the Alexandria Freedmen Cemetery. The history of the Cemetery is connected to the Civil War. Over 1,200 African Americans were buried in the Freedmen Cemetery.

Most of those African Americans were from Alexandria, from various parts of the counties of Virginia, Maryland and a small number came from other States. They all found refuge in Alexandria during the Civil War. For more history on the Alexandria Freedmen Cemetery, please visit “The Friends of Freedmen’s Cemetery” site at http://www.freedmenscemetery.org/.

The City of Alexandria, Virginia wants to recognize the descendants of the Freedmen Cemetery. Please go to the Alexandria Archaeology Museum’s web site that discusses the Contrabands and Freedmen’s Cemetery Memorial at http://alexandriava.gov/FreedmenMemorial.

Since 2008, I have identified over one hundred descendants of the Freedmen Cemetery. I am still looking for their descendants. If you have more than four generations of families from Alexandria, Virginia and your surname is on this list http://www.freedmenscemetery.org/burials/burials.pdf, please contact me through my web e-mail address. The City of Alexandria is building the Contrabands and Freedmen’s Cemetery Memorial at the Freedmen Cemetery, which is located at Washington and Church Streets in Alexandria.

Construction will start in May 2012. A dedication ceremony will take place in 2013 for the Freedmen and the Descendants. If you would like your family to be recognized during this event, please contact me.

As of date, these families have been identified as the descendants of the Alexandria Freedmen Cemetery:

Reverend James P. Aston and Family of Virginia
Judy Coles-Bailey and Family of New York and Maryland
Terry Coles and Family of New Jersey
Beatrice Cross-Taylor and Family of Virginia
Ferdinand T. Day and Family of Virginia
Gwen Day-Fuller and Family of Virginia and Massachusetts
James Henson, Sr., Esquire and Family of Virginia
Mary Morris and Family of Virginia
Kenneth F. Majors and Family of Virginia
Kevin F. Majors and Family of Virginia
Carolyn Phillips McCrae of Maryland
Norman M. Reynolds, Jr. of Maryland
Brittany Williams of Virginia
Clarence McKenney of Virginia
Wendy McKenney Jackson of Virginia
Jasmine Jackson Lee of Virginia
Tia Jackson of Virginia
Tamera Jackson of Virginia
Sabrina McKenney Bussie of Maryland
Ashley McKenney of Virginia
Brenda McKenney of Virginia
Vernon Bussie of Virginia
Eric McKenney of Virginia
Betty Wade of Maryland
Francis Wade of Maryland
Edna Cary of Maryland
Norma Jean Jennings Turner and Family of Virginia and Maryland
Frances Colbert Terrell and Family of Virginia
Roland Burke and Family of Michigan
Frances Burke and Family of Virginia
Doris (Dottie) Hughes and Family of Virginia
Harry Burke and Family of Virginia
Margaret Chisley of Virginia
Beatrice Wright of Virginia
Katie Lou Wright of Virginia
Eunice Wright Jones of Virginia
Lillian Stanton Patterson and Family of Virginia
Lois Diggs and Family of Virginia
Bertrum Drayton of Maryland
Eugene Shanklin Drayton of Virginia
Sharon Dunlop Green and Family of Virginia
Rosalind Drayton Lanford and Family of Maryland
Delores Wilhoit Peake and Family of Virginia
Karen Suggs and Family of Virginia
Clyde G. Fairfax of Maryland
Wanda Ellis of Maryland
Sylvester I. Gaines and Family of Maryland
Samuel (Sammie) Shanklin and Family of Virginia and Washington, DC
Charlene Taylor Napper and Family of Virginia
Donald Lee Taylor and Family of Virginia
John Leonard Taylor and Family of Virginia
Charles A. Taylor and Family of Virginia
Theola Martin Chambers of Virginia
Carol Ann Haskins Daniels and Family of Virginia
William Jackson’s family of Washington, DC
Phyllis Roy Tate’s family of Virginia and DC
Shirley Sanders Steele and Family of Virginia
William Holt, Jr. of Virginia
Michael Lee of Virginia
Mary Louise Cooper of Virginia
Angela J. Sanders of Virginia
Kirk Sanders of Virginia
Tyrone Sanders and Family of North Carolina
Karen Smith of Virginia
Kim Tucker of Maryland
Ester V. Butler and Family of Virginia
Andrew Johnson and Family of Georgia
Antoinette Lightfoot and Family of Virginia
James Lightfoot and Family of Virginia
Bernice Robinson Lee and Family of Virginia
Keith Cave and Family of North Carolina
Betty Dogan Nicholas and Family of West Virginia and Maryland
Adrienne Washington and Family of Virginia
Calvin Terrell and Family of Virginia
Montess Sanders Wales and Family of Virginia
Irene Gaskins Macklin and Family of Virginia
Lucian Johnson of and Family Washington, DC
Dorothy Beatrice Hall Smith and Family of Washington, DC
Dr. Elisha G. Hall and Family of Virginia
Matthew A. Hall and Family of Virginia
Nathaniel Hall and Family of New York
Arthur L. Nelson, Sr. and Family of Virginia
Charles H. Nelson, Sr. and Family of Virginia
Howard Dishman and Family of Virginia
Dorthea Bentley Campbell and Family of Virginia
Patricia Roy’s children of Maryland
Joyce P. Anderson Abney and Family of Washington, DC and Maryland
Fayrene Richardson and Family of Maryland
Frances Norton Burton and Family of California
Henry Norton and Family of Virginia and Maryland
Elizabeth Brooks Evans and Family of Maryland
Zunny (Zunnie) Matema of Maryland
Rita Murphy Harris and Family of New Jersey
Karen Ambush Thande and Family of Maryland
Sandy Porter and Family