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Goodloe, Nancy Hawkins

Name: Goodloe, Nancy Hawkins
Occupation: Keeping House
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Sex: F
Birth: Abt. 1836
Death: Between 1880 and 1897
Marker: Yes
Spouse(s): Charles Goodloe
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Children: Alice G. Scott, Charles Goodloe II, Fanny G. Kelley, Stockton Goodloe, James H. Goodloe, Willie G. Burley, Nancy G. Wayland, Courtney Dallas Goodloe, Savannah Goodloe
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The family of Charles and Nancy Hawkins Goodloe helped build and helped bury the African American community in Charlottesville from the end of the 19th century well into the 20th. In October 1897, the Richmond Planet reported that Charles Goodloe and Sons was building a home at the corner of Dice and Sixth Street SW for Charles Goodloe’s daughter Nancy and her husband, Lewis Wayland, who are also buried in the Goodloe plot at Daughters of Zion Cemetery. Goodloe and his sons built many homes and businesses in the area over the next four decades. Charles Goodloe also served on the Board of Directors for the Piedmont Industrial and Land Improvement Company, which provided credit to African-American homebuyers.

Other members of the extended Goodloe family worked as embalmers and undertakers. The son of Lewis Wayland and Nannie H. Goodloe, Charles attended the Eckels School of Embalming in Philadelphia. He was employed by the firm of Irving, Way, Hill Co., a white undertaking firm that was the forerunner of the Hill and Wood Funeral Service still operating in Charlottesville today. He later ran his own undertaking business in Bedford, Va. As his draft card for World War II shows, he also worked for the University of Virginia Hospital. He was an embalmer there until the end of his life.

The Goodloe family’s impact on Charlottesville is still evident on the landscape. In 1935, after the Daughters of Zion Society disbanded, Courtney Goodloe purchased the former Zion Hall from the Society in order to keep its legacy alive. One of the many organizations housed at the former Zion Hall (then located on Commerce and 4th St. NW) was the Janie Porter Barrett Day Nursery that was later located on Commerce and 5th St. NW and is now known as the Barrett Early Learning Center and located on Ridge St. just up the hill from the Daughters of Zion Cemetery.

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