Thursday, May 8, 2008

Three Reasons That We Need To Locate And Document Some Of Our Older Lost Cemeteries

Three reasons that we need to locate and document some of our older, lost cemeteries:

1. To preserve history.

2. To have reverence for the dead.

3. To offset vandalism and the digging up of graves, by those who have nothing better to do.
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Many black soldiers killed during World War I and WorldWar II-
Lost and buried in a cemetery, that recently has been gone through.

Mary Elizabeth Rumsey
Three by M.E./Rhymes of the Times

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