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Unknown provenance
Gift. Accession #A2007-02
Agnes Exilia Owen was born in 1865. She married Alexander H. Fitzgerald, a high school principal in December of 1886 at Manchester Central Methodist Church in Richmond Virginia. They had a daughter named Emily who was born in 1890. According to the 1940 United States Census, Exilia lived with her daughter and her family on 44th Street in Richmond. Mrs. Fitzgerald, passed away in February 1953. She is buried along side her husband Alexander who passed away in 1913, in Maury Cemetary in Richmond.
Sources:
"Christmas Wedding Bells." Daily Times (Richmond, Va.). Chronicling America-Library of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86071854/1886-12-23/ed-1/seq-4.pdf
Emily Fitzgerald Gregory (1890-1974). Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=gregory&GSfn=emily&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=48&GScnty=2929&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=35048369&df=all&
Exila O. Fitzgerald (1865-1953). Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=fitzgerald&GSfn=exilia&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=35048313&df=all&
1940 Census. Ancestery. com. http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Virginia/Exilia-Fitzgerald_kr3ml
Note written by Kathleen Smith
The collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and an autograph book which was kept by Exilia Owen (Mrs. Alexander H. Fitzgerald. Most of the newspapers clippings in the scrapbook deal with various religious themes.
Autograph Book Kept by Exilia Owen, circa 1865-1953, Box 1, Owen-Fitzgerald Scrapbook and Autograph Book, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Scrapbook Kept by Exilia Owen, circa 1865-1953, Box 1, Owen-Fitzgerald Scrapbook and Autograph Book, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.