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Canady family traces history to slavery

In 1929, Little Jim Canady's family could not afford the luxury of a conventional grave marker, but his son, Ira Canady Sr., took measures to ensure this burial site would never be lost.

Though many impoverished survivors traditionally employed large rocks to designate a burial site, Ira Canady Sr. at age 29, manifested his family's ingenious and pragmatic traits by choosing a long iron pole topped with a ring that he salvaged from an old farm implement to identify the grave in rural Little Rocky Cemetery, northeast of Cameron off FM 2095. Read More

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Mystery Florida Graveyard May Be Historical Bahamian Cemetery

An unmarked cemetery found in South Florida is believed to be the burial site of over 500 Bahamians, Florida officials say.

Florida historian, Larry Wiggins, says he believes the site is of the Lemon City Cemetery, a cemetery for settlers from the Bahamas who went to South Florida in the early 1900s to tend to wealthy whites, and to help build Florida’s most cosmopolitan city.

Teresita DeVeaux, a 100-year-old woman who was born in the Bahamas and moved to Miami as a child during the early 1900s, told international media that she remembered that a young man named Theophilus Clark was buried on the site, which she remembers to be the Lemon City Cemetery.

Read more: The Bahama Journal

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Black families used south Bibb County cemetery beyond slavery era, DOT finds

It’s perhaps a little ironic that history is coming alive at a graveyard. In south Bibb County near the Middle Georgia Regional Airport, archaeologists have been working since April on behalf of the Georgia Department of Transportation to uncover a cemetery of unmarked graves. Originally, it was thought that the cemetery served as the final resting place only for the slaves who worked on the McArthur family plantation. But Hugh Matternes, a mortuary archaeologist for New South Associates, pointed to recent evidence found at the grave sites — including bits of pottery and a metal coffin handle — that indicate that black families continued to use the site as a burial plot once slaves were freed. Read More

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Cemetery serves as silent sentinel of black history

Grand qualities have elevated Mount Hope to the National Register of Historic Places, a rare honor for a graveyard. Just off Fayetteville Street south of downtown, it contains a cross-section of Raleigh's black history: Former slaves, barbers, shoemakers, professors and Raleigh's first black mayor rest under Mount Hope's rolling hills. Read More

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Jackson Chapel Independent African Methodist Episcopal Cemetery,

Jackson Chapel Independent African Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
St. Helena Parish, Greensburg, LA.

Location: Take Highway 37 into Greensburg, La. Turn left on 449 and go down approxmately one mile. The Cemetery sits back off the road on the left hand side. Jackson Chapel Independent African Methodist Episcopal Church is located at the intersection of Highway 37 and Highway 449.

Copied by: Stephanie K. Martin-Quiatte
Completed: July 8, 1999

Transcribed by S.K. Martin-Quiatte

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The Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery

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