Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mike Imoh (born 1984) – former Virginia Tech and Canadian Football League running back; Andre Ingram (born 1985) – NBA player, NBA G League record holder for most games played; Jay M. Ipson (born 1935) § – Holocaust survivor and co-founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum; Daryl Irvine (born 1964) – former MLB relief pitcher
Gregory W. Hayes (died December 2, 1906) was a prominent leader in the Baptist community of African Americans in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from Oberlin College . [ 1 ] In 1891, he became the second president of the Virginia Seminary , which he led until his death in 1906.
The following is a list of notable people who were either born in, raised in, or were one-time residents of Roanoke, Virginia. Roanoke natives are also referred to as Roanokers . Born in Roanoke
The Dictionary of Virginia Biography (DVB) is a multivolume biographical reference work published by the Library of Virginia that covers aspects of Virginia's history and culture since 1607. The work was intended to run for a projected fourteen volumes, but only three volumes were published, the last in 2006.
Hayes was born in Curryville, Georgia, on June 3, 1887, to William Hayes (died ca. 1898) and wife Fannie (or Fanny, née Mann; ca. 1848 – aft. 1920), [3] [4] tenant farmers on the plantation where his mother had once been a slave; the Hayes farm appears to be on one of the tracts of land given by a plantation owner named Culpepper to some black people who worked for them.
Mary Magdalene Rice was born on March 2, 1875, in Harrisonburg, Virginia. [2] She was the illegitimate daughter of former slave Malinda Rice and a former Confederate general, John R. Jones. She attended Hartshorn Memorial College. [3] In 1895, she married educator Gregory W. Hayes. They had seven children, five surviving infancy. [1]
Paris Hilton’s son Phoenix wants to help others when he grows up.. Speaking during a new interview, the DJ and heiress, 43, revealed that her 2-year-old son wants to be a firefighter in the ...
Virginia petitioned to have his remains reinterred to Hollywood Cemetery. The Gothic Revival James Monroe Tomb monument designed by Albert Lybrock resembles a bird cage surrounding a simple granite sarcophagus. [10] It was built in the Presidents Circle section of the cemetery [11] and dedicated by Virginia governor Henry A. Wise on July 5 ...