Name: Coles, Jesse
Occupation: Domestic Servant/Laborer
aka:
Sex: M
Birth: 1821
Death: 6 Oct 1881
Marker: Yes
Spouse(s): Jane Cary Coles
Parents:
Children:
Affiliations: Trustee, Daughters of Zion Society
Notes:
From earlier research, we are aware of two surviving records of cemetery plots sold at the Daughters of Zion Cemetery.
Jesse Coles, Jesse Cary, and Robert Goens (or Goings), trustees for the Daughters of Zion, sold to Cornelia Gilmore and her heirs, for twenty dollars, “One whole Section No. Two …in the first row of sections…on the left hand side of the Alley, leading from the Gate of Entry, into said Cemetery…” The plot was “Twenty feet square . . . in size, and fully and explicitly numbered and described in the plan and plat of said Cemetery, which [was] in the hands of said Trustees.”
Deed Book 71, pages 417-18 (28 March 1877). Albemarle County Circuit Court, Clerk’s Office.
J.H. Brown and Charles James, trustees for the Daughters of Zion, sold to Tamar Wright, for ten dollars, “a certain half section, on the south side of Charles Goodloes Section . . . fronting 9 feet and running back 18 feet” (sic).
Deed Book 10, page 172 (16 November 1899). Charlottesville Circuit Court, Clerk’s Office.
Ted Delaney, “Daughters of Zion Cemetery Project Final Report”, unpublished research paper, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia, 8 May 2000, pages 5-6.
