The Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery


Old Bridge Elementary

Below is a list of the deceased, as well as the individual who designed the bag for each person.

Name Gender Age Decorated by Front
SCOTT, Lucy female 70y Diego Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SCROGGINS, Charles male 1d Zachary Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SCROGGINS, Philip male 24y Elijah Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SEAGEL, Smith male 18y Stephen Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SEALS, Martha female 16y Samantha Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SEALS, Peter male 50y Afnan Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SEATON, Ephraim male 90y India Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SEE, Mary female 1m Jenny Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SELDEN, Infant unknown 1d Myesha Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SELDEN, Josephine female 1m7d Anonymous Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SEMES, Charles male 7d Victoria Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SETTLES, Washington male 1y Keith Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHANKLIN, Berkley male 90y Michael Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHANKLIN, Child unknown unknown Anonymous Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHANKLIN, Infant unknown stillborn Daniela Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHARP, Strawder male 2y Giselle Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHAW, Frank male 9y6m Anonymous Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHELTON, Betty female unknown Myesha Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHELTON, Eliza female 6y Mary Jo Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHELTON, Samuel male 36y Corey Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHELTON, Strother male 3y India Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHEPHERD, Infant unknown 6 weeks Andrew Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHEPHERD, Miles  male 25y Alex Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHIRLEY, William male 19y Gustavo Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHOP, Henderson male 7y Brige Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHORT, Michael  male 45y Connor Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHORTS, John Henry male 1y Carlos Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SHORTS, Shadrach male 1y3m Katie Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SIMMS, Anna female 3y Rebecca Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SIMMS, Frank male 6m Leticia Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SIMMS, Infant unknown stillborn Elizabeth Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SIMMS, Richard male unknown Chase Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SIMPSON, Sally female 60y Aldo Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SIMPSON, William male 8d Chase Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SKELTON, Emily female 6y Claire Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SKELTON, Major male 6d Tessa Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SKELTON, Minor male 1y Myesha Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SKINNER, Celia female 11y Allison Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SLATER, Henry male 2y Kristen Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SLAUGHTER, Milly female 12y Giselle Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SLAUGHTER, Peter male 44y Christian Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMALLWOOD, Hannah female 2y Nataly Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMALLWOOD, Henry male 42y Kelly Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMALLWOOD, John male 10y Elisha Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Alfred male 4y Andrew Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Celia female 21y Anonymous Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Charlotte female 9m Sydney Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Eliza female 2y Hayden Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Elizabeth female 6m Elizabeth Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, George male 21y Nathan Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Infant unknown unknown Virginia Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Infant unknown stillborn Gracie Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Infant unknown stillborn Alexis Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Isaac male 70y Roberto Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, James male 20y Alex Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, James male 5y Juan Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, James male 10y Erin Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Jenny female 24y Yamilet Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, John male 19y Joel Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, John male 100y Ruben Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Joseph male 22y Erin Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Julia female 55y Myesha Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Laura female 11m Jenny Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Lilburn unknown 1 week Alex Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Louisa Ann female 17y Rachel Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Lucy female 1d Hayden Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Nelson male 37y Connor Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Nelson male 16y Diego Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Phebe female 84y Christian Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, Tamar female unknown Amy Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMITH, William male 14y Luzmaria Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMOOT, Abby female 16y Luzmaria Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SMOOT, James male 20y Zachary Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SNOWDEN, George male unknown Delia Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SNOWDEN, Infant unknown 7 weeks India Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SNOWDEN, Mary female 1y Luzmaria Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SNYDER, Charlotte female 19y India Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SOMERS, Edward male 14y George Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SPEED, Allen male 18y Kyle Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SPENCER, Edmond male unknown Leslie Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SPENCER, Infant unknown stillborn Joel Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SPOONVILLE, Thomas male 1y Bradley Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SPRAGUE, Maria female 25y Victoria Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SPRIGGS, Ben male 11y Daniel Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SPRIGGS, George male 23y Brian Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SPRIGGS, Infant unknown 3 weeks Tori Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SPRIGGS, Infant unknown 5 weeks George Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SPRUEL, Nelson male 44y Aldo Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SPRUILL, Thomas male unknown Eric Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANARD, Milton male 27y Anonymous Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANDARD, James male 41y Carlos Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANDLEY, Horace male 8y Jacob Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANLEY, Alice female 5y Kelly Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANLEY, Daniel male 85y Daniel Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANLEY, Harry male 40y Harry Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANTON, Ella female 6 weeks Kyle and Bradley Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANTON, Ida female 5y Gaby Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANTON, Sarah female 1y Joel Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANTON, Susan female 20y Emoneé Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANTON, Walker male 4y Joaquín Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STANTON, Walter male 6y Gracie Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STARR, Lucinda female 50y India Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEPHENS, George male 22y Alex Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEPHENS, Ida female 5m Giselle Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEVENSON, Infant unknown 9m Emily Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEWARD, Alice female 23y Amy Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEWARD, Ann female 39y Elizabeth Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEWARD, Jenny female 14y Catherine Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEWARD, Manuel male 56y Kitzhaber Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEWARD, Sammy male 3y India Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEWARD, William H. male 1½y Elisha Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEWARD, Willis male 10m Andrew Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEWART, Lawrence male 1y Rachel Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEWART, Lucy female 14d Kelly Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEWART, Margaret female 40y Amy Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STEWART, Ossa male 80y Ben Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STODDARD, Child unknown 6y Michael Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STOP? (Strap?) Henry male 40y Brandon Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STRANGE, Nelson male 50y R Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STRATHER, David male 37y Christopher Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STRAUTHER, Thomas male 76y Ben Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STREET, Infant unknown stillborn Colleen Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STREETS, Mary Frances female 1y Anonymous Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STRIBLING, Sizzy female 75y Kelly Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STROTHER, Pheeny female 3y Paige A. Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STROTHER, Preslie male unknown Myesha Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STUART, Henry male 21y Luis Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
STUART, William male 9m Mary Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SUMMERS, (      ) unknown 50y Mary Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SUMMERVILLE, George W. male 6m Adamma Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SUTTLE, Infant unknown 3½m Maria Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SYKES, Ralph male 25y Corey Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
SYKES, Willie male 8m Anonymous Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TAMER, Infant unknown unknown Jackeline Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TANCIMORE, Judy female 40y Cheyenne Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TANCYMORE, George male 12y Juan Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TANEYMORE, Wallace male 1y8m Jessica Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TARE, Sally Ann female 7y Eric Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TATE, Betsey female 80y Allison Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TATE, Fountain female 8y Issa Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TATE, James R. male 4y Hairo Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TAYLOR, Abel male 19y Nick Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TAYLOR, Agnes female 20y Christian Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TAYLOR, Alice female 7y R Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TAYLOR, Bura female 3y Emily Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image
TAYLOR, Catherine female 3y Catherine Illumination Bag Thumbnail Image

Freedmen's Cemetery Historical Site Marker - E 109 Freedmen's Cemetery - Federal authorities established a cemetery here for newly freed African Americans during the Civil War. In January 1864, the military governor of Alexandria confiscated for use as a burying ground an abandoned pasture from a family with Confederate sympathies. About 1,700 freed people, including infants and black Union soldiers, were interred here before the last recorded burial in January 1869. Most of the deceased had resided in what is known as Old Town and in nearby rurual settlements. Despite mid-twentieth-century construction projects, many burials remain undisturbed. A list of those interred here has also survived.

Friends of Freedmen’s Cemetery
638 North Alfred Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
E-mail: freedmen@juno.com

Freedmen's Cemetery Logo - This logo was designed by Alexandria Archaeology Assistant City Archaeologist, Dr. Steven Shephard, in 2006. The beautifully executed final drawing was made by Alexandria Archaeology volunteer, Mr. Andrew Flora, who made a few modifications. At the center of the logo is a headboard of the design seen in historic photographs of the Alexandria National Cemetery, established at the north end of Wilkes Street in 1862. These grave markers were supplied by the U.S. Army Quartermaster Department in Alexandria and records state that this department also supplied the headboards and coffins for Freedmens Cemetery. The pine boards were whitewashed and the plot number, and presumably, the name of the deceased, and possibly the date of death, were painted in black on the headboard. The number 1864 in the logo represents the year that the cemetery was established. The black silhouette of the African American woman in the center of the board is meant to represent the people, the Freedmen, who were buried at the cemetery. Civilian men, women and many children were buried here, along with African American soldiers of the United States Colored Troops. The rays radiating from the top of the headboard are meant to represent the light of freedom, as well as the souls of the Freedmen ascending into heaven and their final reward. The F and C are for Freedmen's Cemetery. The surrounding broken chain wreath symbolizes the severed bonds of slavery which resulted from the American Civil War which transformed Alexandria and the nation.

June 6th, 2007