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Tents Cemetery

Also known as Israelites Cemetery

Hampton, Hampton City, Virginia, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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35 Woodland Road (Rt. 143)
Hampton, Virginia 23663 United States

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The Tents Cemetery is part of the United Order of the Tents (not the Good Samaritans). The United Order of Tents was organized by churchwomen founded in Virginia in 1867 to care for the sick and elderly, to help those in need and to bury the dead. It is the oldest benefit society for black women in the United States.

The United Order of Tents ran a home for the elderly called Rest Haven which was located at 1224 Quash Street in Hampton, VA.

On 14 September 1876 the trustees, Alexander Washington, James Williams and Samuel Smith, for the Good Samaritan and Israelites of Zion, purchased the land from Thomas Tabb for $200.00. Deed Book 4, page 547.

On October 1896 the Good Samaritan and Israelites of Zion Tent #89, separated and the land was divided.

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