Elizabeth Gavino Hubert Lushington

Elizabeth Gavino Hubert Lushington. . , Elizabeth Gavino Hubert Lushington (1873-1929) was born in Antigua and came to the United States as a ward of Bishop Hubert, a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in New York City. In 1890 she married Augustus Nathaniel Lushington of Trinidad, a veterinary surgeon, who was one of the first Negroes to earn a DVM Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897. In Lynchburg his veterinary office was at 1005 Fifth Street. He was also an early probation officer for the City, first as a volunteer, then on a paid basis. Dr. Lushington is featured in the 1921 Virginia Edition of History of the American Negro., Two of the five Lushington children, Helena and Octavia, are buried in unmarked graves beside their mother. Another daughter, Drucilla L. Moultrie, taught in the Lynchburg Public Schools for 47 years., In an era when a woman's achievement was judged by the success of her husband and children, Elizabeth Lushington was a woman of great stature. Her simple gravemarker is just beyond the Pride Family Plot to the east.