Fort Ward and Oakland Baptist Church Cemetery Burial Dates

Fort Ward and Oakland Baptist Church Cemetery Burial Dates
July 3, 2011
J. Glenn Eugster

Source of burial information is: USGenWeb
Note. Information as of June 1999. Does not include 4/ 5 additional graves without names.

1873 W. Javins

1891 Oakland Baptist Church, still an active congregation, was founded in 1891 by African-Americans living in the Fort, a village formed on the site of the dismantled Civil War-era Fort Ward. (City of Alexandria)
1893 In 1893 they relocated to a site purchased by the Falls Church School Board from Robert and Clara Adams, founding members of the church. (City of Alexandria)
1897 The cemetery, located on the eastern edge of Fort Ward Park, was founded around 1897 on property donated by the Adams family. (City of Alexandria)
1897 Cornelia Spence


1918 Virginia Fitzhugh
1923 J.W. Terrell
1925 Maria Blackburn
1929 Russell Lewis

1930 Burney Terrell
1936 Clarence Henry
1936 Elnora Roy
1937 W. Strother Jones
1937 Estelle Roy Rollins

1940 Harriet Roy Taylor
1941 Floretta Roy Nickens
1946 Bertha Rust
1946 William J. Randall, Sr.

1950 Mamie W. Randall
1950 John Rust
1950 William Wanzer
1951 James Rust
1952 Clara Adams
1952 Minnie Lewis
1956 Rev. Samuel Thomas

1961 Mary M. Hall
1963 Rev. Frank Henry
1969 Gladys Harris
1969 Sarah Mallory

1970 James Finley Penn
1970 Everett jr. Scales Jr.
1971 Lloyd Whiting
1973 Lawrence Randall
1973 Ernest E. Roy
1974 William Buck Mallory
1975 Goldie M. Wazer
1976 Mary Nelson Lee
1977 Ethel Chambers
1978 Roland R. Wanzer Sr.
1979 Clarence Roy
1979 Herman Rust

1980 Anne Bell Grant
1980 Irene O. Randell
1981 Evelyn N. Hall
1985 Jean Henry
1986 Annabelle Campbell
1987 Nina Roy
1987 Virginia Roy Wanzer

1990 Ethel E. James
1992 Eva Lee Ashby
1994 Frank W. Bullock