- Joined
- Mar 22, 2009
- Location
- Collierville, TN
The news from Friday is that locals have used Ground Penetrating Radar to located 119 unmarked graves in the Cemetery located next to the Red Banks Baptist Church. The news report said that many locals had know stories about slaves buried there. There are a few simple stone markers existing in the cemetery. The Cemetery dates back to 1848 and includes many marked graves of Confederate Veterans.
The following link takes you directly to the Fox13 video without getting all the pop-ups.
Link:
Slaves Graves at Red Banks.
I still wonder how they know these are actually graves of slaves. I'm sure that many are ex-slaves who died years after the emancipation. But could any of these be graves of slaves buried prior to the Civil War?
The Report in the video shows some orange markers in the dirt access road at Time = 1:50. My daughter's grave can be seen in the background at the far Left of that last row. She is on the back row because she died 1 year ago this month.
I'm watching to see this show up a YouTube video.
{Edited} Red Banks is located in Marshall County, Mississippi, at an exit on I-22 just a few miles West of Holly Springs.
The following link takes you directly to the Fox13 video without getting all the pop-ups.
Link:
Slaves Graves at Red Banks.
I still wonder how they know these are actually graves of slaves. I'm sure that many are ex-slaves who died years after the emancipation. But could any of these be graves of slaves buried prior to the Civil War?
The Report in the video shows some orange markers in the dirt access road at Time = 1:50. My daughter's grave can be seen in the background at the far Left of that last row. She is on the back row because she died 1 year ago this month.
I'm watching to see this show up a YouTube video.
{Edited} Red Banks is located in Marshall County, Mississippi, at an exit on I-22 just a few miles West of Holly Springs.
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