I wrote here about my recent discovery of my great-grandmother’s headstone in Odd Fellows cemetery. She is not alone. Like everyone with deep roots in Black Wilson, I have many relatives buried in the three Lane Street Project graveyards. Mine include:
Henry M. Barnes (1911-1912), my cousin
Ned R. Barnes (1869-1912), my great-great-uncle
Henrietta G. Taylor (1893-1916), my great-aunt
Jesse Barnes (1867-1916), my great-great-uncle
William Barnes (1879-1917), my great-great-uncle
Hennie L. Taylor (1916-1917), my cousin
Wesley Barnes (1865-1919), my great-great-uncle
Mary Barnes Jones (1876-1919), my great-great-aunt
Charles Barnes (1896-1919), my cousin
Mattie Barnes Hines (1895-1922), my cousin
Ethel G. Barnes (1915-1923), my cousin
Rachel Barnes Taylor (1863-1925), my great-grandmother
Warland Barnes (1907-1926), my cousin
H. Michael Taylor (1861-1927), my great-grandfather
Infant Henderson (1928-1928), my uncle
Jesse Henderson Jr. (1928-1929), my cousin
Jerrell R. Barnes (1909-1929), my cousin
Archie Henderson (1926-1930), my cousin
Ned J. Barnes (1899-1931), my cousin
Thomas Perry (1909-1932), my cousin
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At noon on February 20, during our next clean-up, Lane Street Project will conduct a candle lighting ceremony to recognize and give thanks to the ancestors — both remembered and forgotten — buried in Rountree, Odd Fellows, and Vick. Please join us.
Lisa, to your many relatives and to the thousands of others buried there , we honor their legacy for we are because they were. Let us always SAY THEIR NAMES.
In memory of your little sister.
…and I THANK YOU.
I say her name…MARY WELLINGTON. August 5-11, 1949.