Levi Jones; October 7, 1844

Subject of Research: Levi Jones; October 7, 1844
Story: Levi Jones, a free black man, purchases 14 acres from Elizabeth Baggot in what is now Green Valley to be near his enslaved wife Sarah Ann Gardener. Plantation owner, Alexander Frazier, enslaves Sarah and their growing family. After the Civil War, the family helps develop Nauck/Green Valley as an African American community.

“Whenever, the Union soldiers would come around and want anything I had, and had no money for it, I would give it to them. I gave them milk. That is about all I had to give them… I knew what side I was on, I had no vote before the war… " - Levi Jones, 1872
People: Levi Jones
Sarah Ann Gardener
Elizabeth Baggot
Alexander Frazier
Place: Green Valley
Source: A-Guide-to-the-African-American-Heritage-of-Arlington-County-Virginia.pdf; page 23.