CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS, VA - CEMETERIES – Walls’ Slave Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Walls’ slave graveyard:
                  1937 Oct. 11
                  Research made by Dorothy Diffenderfer

Cemetery Location:  2.3 miles south of Denbigh, Virginia, on Route  #60, thence 
                    1 mile east on Route #2, thence .1 of a mile north on 
                    Jefferson Avenue road, thence .2 mile east on private road.
                    City of Newport News, Virginia


DATE:

Prior to 1860.

DESCRIPTION:

The site of this graveyard is in a field.  No tombstones were ever placed over 
the graves.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

These slaves belonged to Mirandi Walls, who owned a big plantation before the 
War Between the States.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. L. Glick, Oyster Point, Va.

Visit by worker.

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