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A Few of Our Interred
The associations of Woodlawn Cemetery
are in the process of creating an electronic database of the 36,000 or more people interred on the site. As we create
the database and research our families, we learn more and more. Listed below are several characters we have begun researching.
Check this page frequently for updates. Click on the individual names to learn more!
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Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841 - 1898)
Educator, Sheriff, Tax Collector, Superintendent of Education, First African American U.S. Senator, Howard University Trustee,
DC Public School Trustee
Clara Burrill Bruce (1883 - 1947)
Lawyer, Second African American Women to Pass Massachussets State Bar, Undergraduate Editor of The Boston
Law Review, Residental Property Manager
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Will Marion Cook (1869 - 1944)
Violinist, Composer, Director, Composed first African American Musical Comedy on Broadway
Elenora Dickerson Davis (1882 - 1916)
Wife of
the first African American U.S. Army General, Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr., Mother of the first African American U. S. Air Force
General, Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.
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John Mercer Langston (1829 - 1897)
Lawyer, Educator, Bureau of Freedmen Inspector General, Dean of the Howard University Law School, First African American Vice-President
and Acting President of Howard University, First African American Congressman
James F. Bundy (1862 - 1914)
Lawyer, Educator,
Secretary/Treasurer of Howard University Law School
John Hartwell Cook (1838 - 1879)
One of
Earliest African American Laywers practicing in DC, Freedmen's Bureau Chief Clerk, Howard University Trustee, Howard University
Professor and Law School Dean
Edward Howard Lawson (1888 - 1952)
Teacher, Organized
and became First President of the Teacher's Association, Master of Prince Hall Masonic Lodge, Washington Post Reporter
Thomas M. D. Ward (1823 - 1894)
Tenth Bishop of Grace Chaple A.M.E. Church (renamed Ward Memorial A.M.E.
in his name) in DC
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John R. Francis (1856 - 1913)
First Freedmen’s Hospital Assistant Surgeon, Freedman's Hospital Acting Surgeon-in-Chief,
DC's First African American Private Clinic for All Races, DC Public School Trustee
Nelson E. Weatherless (1866 - 1943)
Scholar,
Educator, DC Public School Secretery and Chief Examiner of Board of Examiners, Mason Grand Master
William H. Davis (18?? - 1948)
First Secretary
of the Inter demoninational Ushers Union of DC, DC Usher's Union President, Second president of the National United Ushers
Association of America
Lindsay Muse (1805 - 1888)
First African American
Messenger in U.S. Navy, Deacon of 19th Street Baptist Church in DC
James Clinton Dent (1886 - 1908)
Second Pastor
of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in DC
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