Thick vegetation has encroached the historic J.N. Tucker Memorial Cemetery off U.S. 1 over the decades, with vines and overgrowth obscuring largely forgotten graves.
When Bruce Rothschild and Michael Cheek visited the cemetery in December, they were shocked to see a rotted tree choked with potato vines had fallen atop eight to 10 gravesites — including two fallen veterans' tombstones.
Rothschild and Cheek have spearheaded five volunteer cleanup events and generated a restorative jolt to the historic African-American cemetery, which dates to 1912.
"We keep finding more and more unmarked graves that have literally been swallowed up by the earth," Rothschild said.
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