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Mary S. Peake 1823-1862 (large format)
"First teacher of freedmen at Fortress Monroe, Va." . taught children of former slaves under the Emancipation Oak tree in 1861, the first educational effort from which grew Hampton University. Mary Smith Peake was a free citizen of the Commonwealth of Virginia. She was born Mary Smith Kelsey in Norfolk, Virginia. Her father was an Englishman and her mother was a free black woman.
.Elmerton Cemetery, King St., Hampton, Va
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Mary S. Peake 1823-1862 (large format)
"First teacher of freedmen at Fortress Monroe, Va." . taught children of former slaves under the Emancipation Oak tree in 1861, the first educational effort from which grew Hampton University. Mary Smith Peake was a free citizen of the Commonwealth of Virginia. She was born Mary Smith Kelsey in Norfolk, Virginia. Her father was an Englishman and her mother was a free black woman.
.Elmerton Cemetery, King St., Hampton, Va
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