For years, we have forgotten the dead beneath layers of cement. Are we about to again?
Tag: Greenlawn Cemetery
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Leon Bates is historian turned advocate for Greenlawn Cemetery
Bates has spent the last year raising awareness of the segregated history of the Indy cemetery.
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Names at Greenlawn are a mystery a century after headstones vanished
Some of the city’s earliest residents may still be buried at the site near the White River.
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Cheney Lively was one of Indy’s first African American residents
Lively, who died in the 1850s, may have been laid to rest at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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Augustus Turner, founder of Bethel AME, buried at Greenlawn
Turner was a barber and prominent community leader who was buried at Greenlawn Cemetery
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Eunice Trotter wants an excavation of Greenlawn’s African American section
A private development and public bridge project are set to bury some remains forever.
