Emilie Davis
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Emilie "Emily" Frances Davis was a free African American woman living in Philadelphia during the American Civil War. She wrote three pocket diaries for the years 1863, 1864, and 1865 recounting her pe
Front cover of Davis's 1863 diary
Eden Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery located in Collingdale, Pennsylvania, United States. It was established June 20, 1902, and is the oldest existing black owned cemetery in the Unit
Emilie Davis
…Cemetery, the burial place of Octavius Catto and other civil rights leaders of her generation. In 1903, she was reinterred to an unmarked grave at Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania when Lebanon Cemetery closed. Her husband, George White, died on June 1, 1899…
Eden Cemetery Entrance
Eden Cemetery
World War I Pennsylvania Colored Soldier Memorial in Eden Cemetery
Marian Anderson gravestone