Historical Images of the Burial Grounds
Photographs of the Mount Zion and Female Union Band Society Cemeteries, Mount Zion Church members, and the Black Georgetown neighborhood
December 7, 1974
Members of the Metropolitan Boys' Club clean up Mount Zion Cemetery
Reprinted with credit to the DC Public Library, Star Collection, © Washington Post.)
The photograph depicts the South East corner of Mount Zion Cemetery
Undated
Unnamned wooden grave markers held at the Mount Zion Church
Published narratives describe wood grave markers as common in both the Mount Zion and Female Union Band Society Cemeteries. Surviving markers are held at the Mount Zion United Methodist Church
Circa 1974
Oggi Ogburn photographer
Likely Female Union Band Cemetery
Image shows a number of identifiable headstones on graves - to include Esther Louise Frazier and husband William T Frazier, Bessie V. Bell, and Earlstrom F Lassery, and in the background that of Bertha R.; Winslow
Circa 1974 /1975
Oggi Ogburn photographer
Mount Zion Cemetery
Image shows gravesites for Carey Evans (Thompson), Beason Family monument, and "M. x. B" grave as well as numerous unidentified at this time graves
Circa 1974 / 1975
Oggi Ogburn photographer
Mount Zion Cemetery
Image shows Williams enclosed family plot as well as other TBD graves
Circa 1974
Oggi Ogburn photographer
Female Union Band Society Cemetery
Image shows several identifiable headstones on graves Bertha R. Winslow and TBD Barker or Parker
February 22, 2021
Preserving Mount Zion
Author Rachel Tracey
Circa 1950 Methodist Church school bus
