Commendation letter
Grant’s ministerial ordination at the Poplar Fork Baptist Church in Warrenton, 2015
Grant with daughter Andrea circa 1979
Grant at about age 10
Grant leading a tour of the town police headquarters for local boy scouts. Article and photo by staff writer, Fauquier Times Democrat, date unknown
Grant’s core family: L-R Darryl, Monique, Andrea, DaeShaun, Durrell, Marie, Unique, and Grant at Andrea’s home circa 2018
Grant briefs reporters after the Delaplane flood in July, 1989. Credit: Don Del Rosso, Fauquier Citizen
1971 photo of Grant’s grandfather, Aaron Alfonso Grant, standing in front of the Shepherdstown School, a one room schoolhouse for Black children built on land that Grant’s ancestors had gifted to the county in 1884.
Grant reviewing evidence with Sheriff Higgs in the 1993 arson barn fires that devastated the County. Photo from Grant’s personal scrapbook collection, photographer unknown
Grant’s retirement party at age 70
As the first Black town police officer and deputy sheriff, Grant paved the way for others who followed in law enforcement. Here he is pictured with Soc Jolley, a Black Deputy Sheriff in Fauquier County.
The Rosenwald School class of 1946-1947 which included Grant. At the time the segregated school in Warrenton served elementary through high school age children.
Grant at longtime magistrate C. Milton Harding’s retirement party, 2021
Butler Grant standing in front of the Shepherdstown School, a one-room schoolhouse for Black children built on land that Grant’s ancestors had gifted to the county in 1884; he was leading the ultimately unsuccessful movement to restore the building.
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