SHAWNEE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING @ 6:30pm 3rd Tuesday of the Month, Port Shaw Bldg. 3713 West Market St.
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PORTLAND NOW MEETING
@ 6;30p 1ST Tuesday of the Month. 6P SOCIAL TIME, MEETING WILL START AT 6:30P, 1801 PORTLAND AVE. AT CHURCH OF THE PROMISE ENTRANCE ON THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
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If your community is having any neighborhood meetings, please email the office and we will add you to the distribution list. Contact: alfred.johnson@louisvilleky.gov
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CHICKASAW NEIGHBORHOOD FEDERATION MEETING AT SHAWNEE BRANCH LIBRIARY
6PM-8PM
DATE'S TBD
ON NOVEMBER 14, 2024, WE WILL BE HAVING OUR LAST TOWN HALL FOR 2024. AS ALWAYS, WE WILL HAVE DIFFERENT AGENCIES REPRESENTED THERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE THERE SO YOU CAN GET THE INFORMATION YOU NEED!
TIME-6PM
DATE- NOVEMBER 14, 2024
PLACE- SHAWNEE GOLF COURSE, 460 NORTHWESTERN PARKWAY, LOUISVILLE, KY. 40212
 The Unmarked Graves Project Honors Sixteen Black Veterans this Veterans Day
Louisville, KY – On November 11, 2024, Sixteen Civil War, Buffalo Soldier, and World War I veterans will be honored at the second annual Veterans Day observance with full military ceremonies.
The Veterans Day ceremony is being arranged by Master Sergeant Jo Ann Orr, US Army (retired), member of Sister Thea Bowman Society for Racial Solidarity. This group has organized the Unmarked Graves Project. Orr said, “Many of us Black Americans cannot trace our family history more than three or four generations. The work being carried out at St. Louis Cemetery is recovering our story. This cemetery is our history.”
The ceremony will coincide with a Ground Penetrating Radar scan, a non-destructive technique for marking the location of all the gravesites in the area and creating a digital map. Omega Mapping Services will be available for a press conference to explain the process and findings at a time to be announced in early November. The radar project has been funded in part by a grant from the National Trust Preservation Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, fiscally sponsored by (Un)Known Project.
Orr said, “All of these veterans deserve to be recognized and honored. It is shameful to think that they have lain here for so long in an unmarked field and that their contributions weren’t recognized. They’ve waited one hundred and sixty years for someone to say, ‘Thank you for your service.’ They don’t have to wait another year.”
When: Monday November 11, 2024 at 3 PM
Where: St Louis Catholic Cemetery, 1167 Barret Ave., Louisville, Kentucky 40204
1,633 Black Catholics were buried in St. Louis Catholic Cemetery between 1867 and 1937, nearly all of them in unmarked graves. Through archival research, their identities have been uncovered and documented. Their names were read aloud during a Black History Month name reading ceremony last February.
St. Louis Cemetery is listed on the National Parks Service’s Network to Freedom, a national program recognizing agents on the Underground Railroad. A married couple buried here, Madison and Kitty Smith, were active in assisting freedom seekers during the antebellum period.
The Sister Thea Bowman Society has digitized and is transcribing over five thousand pages of military pensions for Black Kentucky veterans who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War. A grant from Epiphany Catholic Church has made this work possible.
Approximately 500 white veterans are buried in St. Louis Cemetery in segregated sections. They will also be acknowledged and honored during the ceremony.
The names and regimental information about the sixteen veterans can be accessed here.
One of the veterans, Jefferson Hayden, fought in the Second Battle of Saltville on December 20, 1864. Hayden was engaged in close quarters combat with rebel forces and received a sabre cut to the right wrist. A fellow solider testified, “although the said wound was bleeding severely [Jefferson] continued to fight.” 10 minutes later he took a gunshot wound from a pistol to the upper thigh and was rushed to a field hospital. He served in the 5th United States Colored Cavalry, Company B. Hayden was born in Anderson County, Kentucky, and was enslaved by James Ripy, the founder of Wild Turkey bourbon.
About the Sister Thea Bowman Society for Racial Solidarity:
The society is a Catholic organization named for Sister Thea Bowman, a dynamic Black preacher, singer, and educator on the path to sainthood. We are an interracial, intergenerational, and multi-parish organization dedicated to building bonds of solidarity and confronting the legacy of racism and slavery in the Catholic Church and the world. We meet at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
Learn more: https://stagneslouisville.org/church/sistertheabowman
Learn more about the (Un)Known Project : https://www.unknownprojecttrail.com/ |
