The following teaser is from an interesting article posted in the November 13, 2013 edition of The Interior Journal
JUNCTION CITY [Kentucky] — Jordan Wallace Jr. lived 29 years as a slave, three years as a soldier and 71 years as a free man.
Now, 75 years after his death — and 178 years after he was born — Wallace’s final resting place is being rediscovered, along with the graves of dozens of other African-Americans, in a small cemetery plot just inside Lincoln County that had seemed to be nothing but an overgrown forest for decades.
“It’s very exciting to uncover things that have been hidden and invisible for so long,” said Cindy Peck, director at Eastern Kentucky University’s Danville campus.
Peck and a new student genealogy club at the satellite campus have been visiting what’s known as the Shelby City African-American Cemetery for the past three Saturdays, clearing away trees and underbrush as part of a volunteer service project.
The cemetery, named for the community that used to exist in the area until around 1926, was first used as a gravesite as early as the 1700s and as late as 1952, according to those researching it.
