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[20] In addition to the Jackson family, the "Four Hundreds Club" included the Coles, Bells (owner of the J.F. Bell Funeral Home), Tonslers, and Inges families. [20] The Jackson family lived at 520 Pearl Street in Charlottesville's predominantly African-American neighborhood, Vinegar Hill. In 1939, white city officials intentionally destroyed ...
Gildersleeve was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Emma Louisa Lanneau, daughter of Bazille Lanneau and Hannah Vinyard, and Benjamin Gildersleeve (1791–1875).His father was a Presbyterian evangelist, and editor of the Charleston Christian Observer from 1826 to 1845, of the Richmond, Virginia Watchman and Observer from 1845 to 1856, and of The Central Presbyterian from 1856 to 1860.
Andrew J. Bell Jr. (1907-June 4, 2000), was an African American business owner, a funeral director, a community leader, and a civil rights activist. Bell was posthumously inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2007.
The ragtag members of the Kennedy clan turned out Monday for the funeral of Ethel Kennedy — the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, and the last link to the family's days of "Camelot" in the White House.
Location of Charlottesville in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. The locations of ...
Mary Hemings Bell (c. 1753 – after 1834) was born into slavery, most likely in Charles City County, Virginia, as the oldest child of Elizabeth Hemings, a mixed-race slave held by John Wayles. After the death of Wayles in 1773, Elizabeth, Mary, and her family were inherited by Thomas Jefferson , the husband of Martha Wayles Skelton , a ...
Belmont, also known as the Ficklin Mansion, is a historic home located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built about 1820 for John Winn by Jefferson brick mason John Jordan. Originally it had a center pavilion with lower symmetrical side wings but a second story was added to the wings by John Winn's son Benjamin Bannister Winn about 1840.
Cheryl Hines supported her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at the Wednesday, October 16, funeral for his mother, Ethel Kennedy. Hines, 59, was spotted arriving at the Cathedral of Saint Matthew in ...