Cemeteries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
African American Veterans, Surnames: A - F
File — Box 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Folder 2 contains research of African American sailors, soldiers, and veterans during the Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and other historic eras. Records include miitary service records, headstone applications, and death certificates. Entries with the designation "records index" are an indexed view of service records without one person solely identified for which the index pertains to. Individuals listed below may likely have records cross references...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1990s-2010s
African American Veterans, Surnames: G - W
File — Box 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Folder 3 contains research of African American sailors, soldiers, and veterans during the Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and other historic eras. Records include miitary service records, headstone applications, and death certificates. Entries with the designation "records index" are an indexed view of service records without one person solely identified for which the index pertains to. Individuals listed below may likely have records cross references...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1990s-2010s
Banks Genealogy Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0000-004
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of scrapbooks containing genealogical papers, marriage and record licenses, photos, hand-written letters and newspaper articles, birth certificates, newspaper clippings, and sketched portraits of Robert Fristoe Banks (seven volumes), Woodhouse Keeling Martin (three volumes), Robert Bartee (six volumes), Harrison Banks (two volumes), George Thomas Banks ( one volume), John Banks (two volumes), Harrison Hartwell Banks (five volumes), Charles Thomas Banks (six volumes),...
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Cheryl Copper Cemeteries Photographs
Collection — 6 folders
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-607
Scope and Contents
Primarily negatives from the summer of 1994 featuring tombstones in graveyards in the Norfolk and Virginia Beach areas of Virginia. Featured cemeteries include the Land Family Cemetery, St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Hebrew Cemetery, Cedar Grove Cemetery, and West Point Cemetery. The developed photographs from Folder 1 show gravestones and people cleaning the graveyard of the Land Family Cemetery.
Dates:
created: 1994; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Cheryl Copper Research Notes on Norfolk, Virginia Cemeteries
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2022-009
Scope and Contents
Research notes compiled by Cheryl Copper relating to cemeteries in Norfolk, Virginia.
Dates:
created: circa 1980-2017; Other: Date acquired: 04/29/2022
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Dinah Walters Genealogy Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-2024-012
Scope and Contents
The Dinah Walters Genealogy Collection is comprised of research material pertaining primarily to the Carey, Fowlkes, Kennel, Miles, Headspeth, Holland, Holladay, Peele, Thoroughgood, and Walters families and their respective allied families; cemetery and tombstone research that ultimately culminated in Ms. Walters' 2001 book, co-authored with Mae Breckenridge-Haywood, Inscriptions in Triumph: Tombstone Inscriptions from the African American Cemeteries of Mt....
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1990s-2010s
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Inscriptions in Triumph: Tombstone Inscriptions from the Cemeteries of Mt. Calvary, Mt. Olive, Fisher's Hill and Potter's Field, Portsmouth, Virginia
File — Box 2, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
The manuscript for the published 2001 book Inscriptions in Triump: Tombstone Inscriptions from the Cemeteries of Mt. Calvary, Mt. Olive, Fisher's Hill and Potter's Field, Portsmouth, Virginia by Dinah Walters and co-authored with Mae Breckenridge-Haywood. The manuscript includes sections such as author biographies; an introduction about cemetery records and research; listings of people buried in Mt. Calvary, Mt. Olive, Fisher's Hill and Potter's Field;...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1990s-2010s
Interred at Wilson Cemetery
File — Box 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Folder 1 contains genealogical research of African American Civil War veterans, alphabetized by surname, interred at Wilson's Cemetery in Portsmouth, Virginia. Surnames are organized as follows: Baysmore, GeorgeHodges, JohnHonesty, Geo (George) HenryJones, GreenJoiner, GranvilleKittrel, SamuelManning, James EMorgan, HenryOuld, HenryPitt, DanielShellington, DanielSmith, ThaddeusThompson, Saml...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1990s-2010s
Photographs of Cemeteries and Tombstones, 1996
File — Box 2, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
17 photographs of tombstones in cemeteries taken about 1996. Some tombstones featured include Ella Nakano, Elua Nakano, George Tracy Magee, Lucy and J. Frank Proctor, Reverend William T. Miller, Gertrude S. Wilson, Jeffrey T. Wilson, and Frank L. Wilson. Mae Breckenridge-Haywood can be seen standing in the WIlson family plot.
Dates:
1996
Sargeant Memorial Collection Postcard Collection
Collection — 9 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-PCC
Scope and Contents
The Sargeant Memorial Collection Postcard Collection houses postcards from the Norfolk area, Hampton Roads, Richmond, Washington, D.C., the state of Virginia and surrounding states, and the Jamestown Exposition. Some postcards in the collection are postmarked from the early 1900s.
Dates:
created: circa 1900-1980; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection