Originally buried Harmony, Washington, DC
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Columbian Harmony Cemetery (Defunct)
Also known as: Harmoneon Cemetery (Defunct), Harmonia Burial Ground (Defunct)
Cemetery notes and/or description:
Columbian Harmony Cemetery was a large African-American cemetery on the site of today's Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood Metro Station. In 1960, 37000 graves were removed to National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery in nearby Landover, Maryland. The gravestones were discarded and today almost all the graves are unmarked. A plaque near the entrance to the Metro station is all that remains to remind people that there was once a cemetery at that location.
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1954
Paper: Evening Star (Washington (DC), DC)
Page: 10
Haley G Douglass, Abolitionist's Kin and Ex-Dunbar Teacher
Haley George Douglass, 72, who taught science and history at Dunbar High School for 46 years before he retired in 1952, was found dead Saturday at his home, 1732 Fifteenth Street N. W., where he lived alone.
Born in Canandaigua, N. Y., he was the grandson of the famous Negro abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. He went to public schools here and was graduated from the preparator department of Howard University in 1900. A year later he was graduated from Phillps Exeter Academy and in 1905 from Harvard. At the latter college he won his numerals in footall, a medal in intercollegiate track and was a member of the Weld Rowing Clubing.
Mr. Douglass was a Government employee and medical student at Howard before he began teaching in 1906. He coached football and track at Dunbar and was an organizer of the Washington Tennis Assoiation, which promotes tennis tournaments among Negroes on the Atlantic Coast.
His memberships included the Oldest Inhabitants, Inc., Mu-So-Lit Club, Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For many years he was Mayor of Highland Beach, Md., which he helped develop.
Survivors are a son, Dr. Joseph A. Douglass, dean of Fayetteville (N.C.) State Teachers College, and a daughter, Miss Jean M. Douglass, a student at Morgn College, Baltimore.
Funeral services were to be at 1:30 p.m. today at McGuire's funeral home, 1820 Ninth Street, N. W., with burial in Harmony Cemetery.
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Columbian Harmony Cemetery (Defunct)
Also known as: Harmoneon Cemetery (Defunct), Harmonia Burial Ground (Defunct)
Cemetery notes and/or description:
Columbian Harmony Cemetery was a large African-American cemetery on the site of today's Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood Metro Station. In 1960, 37000 graves were removed to National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery in nearby Landover, Maryland. The gravestones were discarded and today almost all the graves are unmarked. A plaque near the entrance to the Metro station is all that remains to remind people that there was once a cemetery at that location.
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1954
Paper: Evening Star (Washington (DC), DC)
Page: 10
Haley G Douglass, Abolitionist's Kin and Ex-Dunbar Teacher
Haley George Douglass, 72, who taught science and history at Dunbar High School for 46 years before he retired in 1952, was found dead Saturday at his home, 1732 Fifteenth Street N. W., where he lived alone.
Born in Canandaigua, N. Y., he was the grandson of the famous Negro abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. He went to public schools here and was graduated from the preparator department of Howard University in 1900. A year later he was graduated from Phillps Exeter Academy and in 1905 from Harvard. At the latter college he won his numerals in footall, a medal in intercollegiate track and was a member of the Weld Rowing Clubing.
Mr. Douglass was a Government employee and medical student at Howard before he began teaching in 1906. He coached football and track at Dunbar and was an organizer of the Washington Tennis Assoiation, which promotes tennis tournaments among Negroes on the Atlantic Coast.
His memberships included the Oldest Inhabitants, Inc., Mu-So-Lit Club, Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For many years he was Mayor of Highland Beach, Md., which he helped develop.
Survivors are a son, Dr. Joseph A. Douglass, dean of Fayetteville (N.C.) State Teachers College, and a daughter, Miss Jean M. Douglass, a student at Morgn College, Baltimore.
Funeral services were to be at 1:30 p.m. today at McGuire's funeral home, 1820 Ninth Street, N. W., with burial in Harmony Cemetery.
Originally buried Harmony, Washington, DC
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Columbian Harmony Cemetery (Defunct)
Also known as: Harmoneon Cemetery (Defunct), Harmonia Burial Ground (Defunct)
Cemetery notes and/or description:
Columbian Harmony Cemetery was a large African-American cemetery on the site of today's Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood Metro Station. In 1960, 37000 graves were removed to National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery in nearby Landover, Maryland. The gravestones were discarded and today almost all the graves are unmarked. A plaque near the entrance to the Metro station is all that remains to remind people that there was once a cemetery at that location.
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1954
Paper: Evening Star (Washington (DC), DC)
Page: 10
Haley G Douglass, Abolitionist's Kin and Ex-Dunbar Teacher
Haley George Douglass, 72, who taught science and history at Dunbar High School for 46 years before he retired in 1952, was found dead Saturday at his home, 1732 Fifteenth Street N. W., where he lived alone.
Born in Canandaigua, N. Y., he was the grandson of the famous Negro abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. He went to public schools here and was graduated from the preparator department of Howard University in 1900. A year later he was graduated from Phillps Exeter Academy and in 1905 from Harvard. At the latter college he won his numerals in footall, a medal in intercollegiate track and was a member of the Weld Rowing Clubing.
Mr. Douglass was a Government employee and medical student at Howard before he began teaching in 1906. He coached football and track at Dunbar and was an organizer of the Washington Tennis Assoiation, which promotes tennis tournaments among Negroes on the Atlantic Coast.
His memberships included the Oldest Inhabitants, Inc., Mu-So-Lit Club, Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For many years he was Mayor of Highland Beach, Md., which he helped develop.
Survivors are a son, Dr. Joseph A. Douglass, dean of Fayetteville (N.C.) State Teachers College, and a daughter, Miss Jean M. Douglass, a student at Morgn College, Baltimore.
Funeral services were to be at 1:30 p.m. today at McGuire's funeral home, 1820 Ninth Street, N. W., with burial in Harmony Cemetery.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=104436&CScn=h&CScntry=4&CSst=9&CScnty=312&
Columbian Harmony Cemetery (Defunct)
Also known as: Harmoneon Cemetery (Defunct), Harmonia Burial Ground (Defunct)
Cemetery notes and/or description:
Columbian Harmony Cemetery was a large African-American cemetery on the site of today's Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood Metro Station. In 1960, 37000 graves were removed to National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery in nearby Landover, Maryland. The gravestones were discarded and today almost all the graves are unmarked. A plaque near the entrance to the Metro station is all that remains to remind people that there was once a cemetery at that location.
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1954
Paper: Evening Star (Washington (DC), DC)
Page: 10
Haley G Douglass, Abolitionist's Kin and Ex-Dunbar Teacher
Haley George Douglass, 72, who taught science and history at Dunbar High School for 46 years before he retired in 1952, was found dead Saturday at his home, 1732 Fifteenth Street N. W., where he lived alone.
Born in Canandaigua, N. Y., he was the grandson of the famous Negro abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. He went to public schools here and was graduated from the preparator department of Howard University in 1900. A year later he was graduated from Phillps Exeter Academy and in 1905 from Harvard. At the latter college he won his numerals in footall, a medal in intercollegiate track and was a member of the Weld Rowing Clubing.
Mr. Douglass was a Government employee and medical student at Howard before he began teaching in 1906. He coached football and track at Dunbar and was an organizer of the Washington Tennis Assoiation, which promotes tennis tournaments among Negroes on the Atlantic Coast.
His memberships included the Oldest Inhabitants, Inc., Mu-So-Lit Club, Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For many years he was Mayor of Highland Beach, Md., which he helped develop.
Survivors are a son, Dr. Joseph A. Douglass, dean of Fayetteville (N.C.) State Teachers College, and a daughter, Miss Jean M. Douglass, a student at Morgn College, Baltimore.
Funeral services were to be at 1:30 p.m. today at McGuire's funeral home, 1820 Ninth Street, N. W., with burial in Harmony Cemetery.
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