Jefferson County'S Black Cemeteries Find New Caretaker in Addison Reese

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Addison Reese has been cleaning up West Virginia's black cemeteries for years with the help of local grants.

But this year, the Jefferson County NAACP got $135,000 from the West Virginia Community Foundation to help clean up four more cemeteries, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reports.

"Overall, I would like to see funding used to continue to clean out these burial grounds, identify and document what’s above the soil, then use a variety of methods to investigate what is below the soil," says Reese.

"By probing and surveying is also another important element to understand the scale of these sites, which are often poorly marked and may have graves outside the surveyed boundaries," she adds.

"Unfortunately, many of the cemeteries that Reese looks after have had land disputes and grave sites desecrated by people moving in right next to these cemeteries or by people driving by."



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