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Parker, Edmund, 1827-1898

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Photograph of Edmund Parker Standing Guard at George Washington's Tomb

 Collection — Box BW 49, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16755
Content Description This collection contains one photograph of Edmund Parker (1827-1898), formerly enslaved at Mount Vernon, standing guard at George Washington's Tomb circa 1890. In 1841, Parker was brought to Mount Vernon, at the age of fourteen, as one of the enslaved people owned by John Augustine Washington III. He married Susan, an enslaved woman Augustine had purchased in 1852, and the couple went on to have nineteen children, including two sets of twins. Parker fled from Mount Vernon during the Civil...
Dates: 1890