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Portsmouth, Virginia: Finding ancestors, Mt. Calvary Cemetery Complex

Format ImagePosted on July 4, 2007by Cypher6

Orton Mt. Calvary Copyright Nadia Orton — Great-great-great-grandfather Max J. Orton (1850-1902), USN

Orton Mt. Calvary Copyright Nadia K. Orton — Great-great-great-grandmother Jerusha Copeland Orton (ca. 1864-1928)

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Categories Chesapeake, Civil War Navy, African American, Emancipation, Image Posts, Isle of Wight County, Lincolnsville, Nansemond County, Norfolk County, North Carolina, North Carolina Cemeteries, Portsmouth, Preservation, Reconstruction, Richmond, Slavery, Suffolk, Tales from the East End, veterans, Virginia, Virginia Cemeteries

Tags cemetery, Civil War, family history, Free African Americans, genealogy, Jerusha Copeland Orton, Max Orton, Mt. Calvary Cemetery Complex, North Carolina, Orton, Portsmouth, Preservation, Quakers, Reconstruction, Richmond, Slavery, Suffolk, Tidewater, US Navy, Virginia

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Professional genealogist and public historian. Graduate of Duke University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in African/African American Studies and Political Science, with a certificate in Market and Management Sciences. Secretary and historian of the Historic Oak Lawn Cemetery Foundation (Suffolk, Virginia). Studying historic African American cemeteries and communities of Virginia and North Carolina.

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