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Hunt, Gilbert (ca. 1780–1863) – Encyclopedia Virginia encyclopediavirginia.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from encyclopediavirginia.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Norton was born enslaved about 1840 in Williamsburg of mixed-race ancestry. He was a younger brother by about a decade of F. S. Norton, who was also a member of the House of Delegates (1869–1871), and an elder brother of Daniel M. Norton, who was a member of the Convention of 1867–1868 and of the Senate of Virginia (1871–1873, 1877–1887). They may have been sons of an enslaved woman and her owner. The identities of their parents are not known for certain, and Robert Norton provided different names for his mother on each of his two marriage records: Richard and Elizabeth without surnames in one instance, and Charlotte E. Norton in another. ....
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Early Years Ballard Trent Edwards was born about October 10, 1828, and was of mixed-race ancestry. His parents, Edward Bradbury Edwards and Mary Ann Trent Edwards, were members of the free African American community in his native town of Manchester, in Chesterfield County. On August 23, 1850, Edwards married Sarah Ann Coy, who had been born free in Powhatan County. Of their twelve children, six daughters and three sons survived childhood. Edwards identified himself as a brick mason in the 1860 census. Surviving documents do not indicate whether he participated in the American Civil War (1861–1865), after which he opened a school in Manchester. By the time of his marriage, Edwards had probably succeeded his father, a carpenter, as clerk of the African Church of Manchester. Beginning in 1867 he served for many years as clerk of the Colored Shiloh Baptist Association of Virginia, composed of churches in central Virginia. As one of the congregation’s leaders in 1872, Edwar ....
The appellants in Loving v. Virginia were Richard Perry Loving and his wife, Mildred Delores Jeter Loving. Born on October 29, 1933, in Central Point, Caroline County, Richard Loving was a white man who worked as a construction worker. Mildred Loving, born on July 22, 1939, also in Central Point, was part African American and part Indian. (Later in her life she identified only as Indian.) After traveling to Washington, D.C., to obtain a legal marriage on June 2, 1958, they returned to Virginia, where mixed-race unions were against the law. They lived downstairs in the Central Point home of Mildred Loving’s parents. On July 11, the commonwealth’s attorney for Caroline County, Bernard Mahon, obtained warrants for the couple’s arrest. After attempting to apprehend them several times during the day, Sheriff Garnett Brooks found the Lovings at home in the early morning hours a few days later. After knocking on and then breaking through the door, Brooks and two deputies ....