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

Bouling, Charles
Moore, Robert L.
Murray, James
Smith, Henry
Walker, Aldridge

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

Korea

Bruce, Sam Robert

9-11-2001

Fox, Virginia Betty Chambers