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Elizabeth Van Lew (October 12, 1818 – September 25, 1900) was an American abolitionist, Southern Unionist, and philanthropist who recruited and acted as the primary handler an extensive spy ring for the Union Army in the Confederate capital of Richmond during the American Civil War. Many false claims continue to be made about her life.
The Adams/Van Lew house was razed in 1911 and replaced by a public school that still stands (Bellevue Elementary School). [28] [29] Dr. Adams built a brick double house between 1809 and 1810 for rental purposes, at the southeast corner of Grace and 25th streets (2501 East Grace St). [30] It is a double house of two and a half stories with ...
Shockoe Hill Cemetery is the burial place of Chief Justice John Marshall, American Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco, Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, and many other notables. It also is the resting place of many Confederate States of America soldiers.
Crypts of Chief Justice John Marshall (left) and his wife, Mary Willis Ambler Marshall, in Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, VA.. Shockoe Hill Cemetery holds the graves of Chief Justice John Marshall; [11] attorney John Wickham (counsel for Aaron Burr in Burr's 1807 treason trial); Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco; famed Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, as well as many members of her spy ...
Mary Jane Richards was likely born in Virginia, and was possibly enslaved from birth by Eliza Baker Van Lew and John Van Lew (parents of Elizabeth) or their extended family. [4] [5] The first record directly related to her is her baptism, as "Mary Jane" at St. John's Church in Richmond, on May 17, 1846. [2]
Richmonder and Union Spy Elizabeth Van Lew is the first to hoist the US flag in Richmond. [78] April – Francis Harrison Pierpont relocates Restored Government of Virginia to Richmond. Allen & Ginter Toboacco company forms. State Planters Bank Of Commerce And Trusts (later Crestar Bank) is founded in Richmond.
Maggie Lena Draper was born on July 15, 1864, the daughter of Elizabeth Draper and Eccles Cuthbert. [4] [5] [a] Her mother, a former slave, was an assistant cook at the Van Lew estate in Church Hill of Richmond, Virginia, where she met Cuthbert, an Irish American journalist for the New York Herald, based in Virginia. There is no record of a ...
After the public display of his corpse, Dahlgren was interred in an unmarked grave at Oakwood Cemetery in Richmond. [10] The Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew used her connections in Richmond to secretly exhume his remains and reinter them at a farm 10 miles outside of Richmond [13] to prevent further desecration of his body. [10]