Margaret Wilhelmina (Jackson) Rolark (1916 - 2006)

Born 27 Sep 1916 in Portsmouth, Norfolk, Virginia, United States

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Died 14 Feb 2006 at age 89 in Washington D.C., United States

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Biography

Wilhelmina (Jackson) Rolark is Notable.

Wilhelmina Jackson Rolark was a politician and activist in Washington, D.C. She served four terms on the Council of the District of Columbia. She was also president of The Washington Informer, a weekly newspaper in Washington, D.C., founded by her husband, Calvin W. Rolark, Sr., in 1964.^[1]

Margaret was born in 1916 in Portsmouth, Virginia. She was the daughter of John and Margaret Jackson.^[2]

She married Calvin W. Rolark.

She died in 2006 after battling colon cancer for a year.^[3][4]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina_Rolark
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJFD-K6C : 4 February 2021), Williemay Jackson in entry for John W Jackson, 1920.
3. ↑ "Wilhelmina J. Rolark: Ex-council member, activist Rolark dies," '"The Washington Times, 15 Feb 2006, Web. (newsbank.org, accessed 25 Sep 2022).
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (findagrave.com/memorial/23871103/wilhelmina-jackson-rolark: accessed 25 September 2022), memorial page for Wilhelmina Jackson Rolark (27 Sep 1916–24 Feb 2006), Find A Grave: Memorial #23871103, citing Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA; Maintained by: Find a Grave

See also:

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CCHL-Z2M : accessed 25 September 2022), Wilhelminia Jaeckson in household of John W Jaeckson, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1, sheet 8A, line 30, family 174, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2473; FHL microfilm 2,342,207.
• "Wilhelmina Rolark," The History Makers, Web. accessed 25 Sep 2022.