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Roberta Luster – Memorialized by one of the most beautiful monuments in Evergreen.
George Mankins and Henrietta Willis Mankins – He enlisted to fight in the Spanish American War; she stayed in Richmond and raised 13 children. Both are buried in Evergreen.
William C. Ewell, George Washington Hendley, and George Ewell – Three generations of black soldiers, they were a soldier in the USCT, a Buffalo Soldier, and one who was enlisted between World War 1 and World War II.William C. Ewell and George Washington Hendley are buried in historical Woodland Cemetery in Henrico County. George Ewell is buried in Greenwood Memorial Gardens in Goochland County.
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