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Subject: [NCSTOKES] Old Liberty Grave Yard
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:57:01 EDT

While at the library in Winston-Salem NC the other day I found some
interesting articles about the Liberty Grave Yard.

April 29, 1941 Old Liberty Graveyard goes to a new location: remains will be
reburied at County Farm.

The Location of the Liberty Graveyard was on White Street adjoining the
former Union Grove Chapel. Nearly 500 Blacks and 500 Whites were buried
there.

These graves were said to have been moved to county home and "reburial at the
county home would be correctly cared out."

Newpaper article Twin City Sentinal 8-16-1963 "Settler's Graves Neglected"
"We reburied them all in the three trenchs and put the stones there." The
1941 article told of "County Commissioners, James G. Hanes and Dr. D.C. Speas
were on site yesterday to supervise the work and represent the
county.---------------Forysth County health Department was co-operating with
the contractors doing the excavation work in keeping a man on the site to
measure the location of the plots and to keep accurate records of bodies
found so that reburial at the county home would be correctly carried out."

Questions:
1. Where was the county home or county farm located?
2. Is the cemetery still located there?
3. Would there be any records kept from the removal and reburial?
4. Union Grove Chapel does it still exist?

Any answers to these questions? I also thought that this would give some
people something to wonder about on the burial of one of their ancestors that
they can't find.

Happy Digging
Catherine Leinbach

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