The final panel of the African American Genealogy Group’s 2002 display, “True to Our Native Land,” was a memorial to African Americans from Charlottesville and Albemarle County who died in times of national crisis. Names were identified from family members, cemetery records and published sources.

World War I

Anderson, Charles Ben
Bouling, Charles
Carter, Thomas
Coles, Avery Lee
Flowers, James C
James, Charles Andrew
Jordan, John
Moore, Robert L.
Murray, James
Ragland, Frank C.
Smith, Henry
Walker, Aldridge/Elridge
Walker, Morris Herman

World War II

Anderson, George G.
Austin, Willie A.
Brown, James A.
Crenshaw, Lawrence
Hightower, John P.
Murray, Walter Watson
Nelson, Wilson Skipper, Jr.
Rones, Wyatte L.
Smith, John W.
Swingler, Roxwell
Terrell, James Henry
Thurston, Golden L.
Waytes, James Henry
White, Thomas
Woods, Arthur Jenkins

Korea

Bruce, Sam Robert
Garland, Fletcher R
Goodman, William L.
Holmes, Jr., Wallace

9-11-2001

Fox, Virginia Betty Chambers