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Ozella Barnaby Harvey

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Monticello's gatehouse during the Levy era, home of the Coleman-Henderson families
Special Collections, University of Virginia

Dates: –2010

Family: Coleman-Henderson

Residence (at time of interview): Washington, DC

Ozella Harvey and four other descendants of Monticello gatekeeper Eliza Tolliver Coleman were interviewed together in 1995. All live in the Washington, DC, area and work (or worked) in various departments of the federal government. They shared their memories of Eliza Coleman’s daughters Lucy Coleman Barnaby Page and Grace Coleman Harris and recalled summers spent at the Monticello gatehouse. Members of the extended Coleman family lived at Monticello for more than a century—far longer than any of the property’s owners. 

Interview Information

28 Apr. 1995, Mitchellsville, MD
Interviewees: Anne Slaughter, Ozella Harvey, Barbara Graves, Ereselle Brooke, Maxcine Sterling
Also present: Karen Branson-Butler, Jay Slaughter

Excerpts

(audio)
“She was good to everybody”

 Ozella Harvey remembers her grandmother Lucy Coleman Barnaby Page.

 

Theme: Family

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Ancestry

  • Thomas Coleman ca. 1808–1888 Jane Coleman
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  • Thomas Coleman 1845–post 1910
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  • Lucy Coleman Barnaby 1869–1956
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  • Ozella Barnaby Harvey –2010

Related People

  • Eliza Tolliver Coleman great-grandmother
  • Barbara Barnaby Graves sister
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