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Virgil Alexander Wood (April 6, 1931 – December 28, 2024) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. Ordained as a minister in his late teens, Wood served various churches in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Virginia for over 50 years.
published two times a week South Hill Enterprise [16] South Hill: 1906 Weekly Womack Publishing Co. Inc. [2] Southside Messenger: Keysville: 2004 Weekly Southside Sentinel: Urbanna: 1896 Weekly Southwest Times: Pulaski: 1906 Daily Star-Tribune: Chatham: 1869 Weekly Womack Publishing Co. Inc. [2] Style Weekly: Richmond: 1982 Weekly VPM Media ...
Two-thirds of the burials in the cemetery are African American. It has been estimated that over 90% of Lynchburg's enslaved and free African American population are buried in the Old City Cemetery, the primary burial site for African Americans from 1806 to 1865. In fact, at that time it was the only burial ground, excluding private family ...
Mosby Garland Perrow Jr. (born March 5, 1909 – May 31, 1973) was a Virginia lawyer and state senator representing Lynchburg, Virginia. [1] A champion of Virginia's public schools, Perrow became a key figure in Virginia's abandonment of "Massive Resistance" to public school desegregation, including by chairing a joint legislative committee colloquially known as the Perrow Commission.
Gravestone of Don Reno and family at Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg. Don Reno died in 1984 aged 58, in Charlottesville, Virginia, of a "circulatory ailment." [2] He is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia. [12]
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A new survey found that 1 in 5 adults “who say they have no personal or family history of heart attack or stroke,” reported “routinely” taking a low-dose aspirin
Lynchburg was a deadly place for the worship of God'." That referred to the lack of churches, which was corrected the following year. Itinerant Methodist Francis Asbury visited the town; Methodists built its first church in 1805. Lynchburg hosted the last Virginia Methodist Conference that bishop Asbury attended (February 20, 1815). [11]