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Joe Lea

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Joe Lea

Birth
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, USA
Death
18 Sep 1936 (aged 22)
Coinjock, Currituck County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Newport News, Newport News City, Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot
WPA Transient Camp Cemetery WPA Workers
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Transient Worker's Cemetery
Site 10 - Negro WPA Cemetery
Drowned at Manteo, NC, during storm.
Burial Oct. 7, 1936, Fort Eustis,VA.

There are two cemeteries located about 150 yards northeast of the tennis court on Pershing Avenue. Burials were made at these two plots from December 1934 until October 1936 during the period that the Work Progress Administration (WPA) operated a transient indigent workers camp at Fort Eustis during the Depression. The first cemetery (Site 10) contains the graves of nine Negroes and the second (Site 11) the graves of thirteen white men who died here during the period of WPA occupancy. The USATCFE Historian has the names and dates of death of these individuals, whose remains were unclaimed by their next-of-kin, or whose next-of-kin were unknown.
Transient Worker's Cemetery
Site 10 - Negro WPA Cemetery
Drowned at Manteo, NC, during storm.
Burial Oct. 7, 1936, Fort Eustis,VA.

There are two cemeteries located about 150 yards northeast of the tennis court on Pershing Avenue. Burials were made at these two plots from December 1934 until October 1936 during the period that the Work Progress Administration (WPA) operated a transient indigent workers camp at Fort Eustis during the Depression. The first cemetery (Site 10) contains the graves of nine Negroes and the second (Site 11) the graves of thirteen white men who died here during the period of WPA occupancy. The USATCFE Historian has the names and dates of death of these individuals, whose remains were unclaimed by their next-of-kin, or whose next-of-kin were unknown.

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Age 22


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  • Created by: Super Scout
  • Added: Feb 27, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48885229/joe-lea: accessed ), memorial page for Joe Lea (15 May 1914–18 Sep 1936), Find a Grave Memorial ID 48885229, citing Fort Eustis Military Post Burials, Newport News, Newport News City, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Super Scout (contributor 47247127).