SECTION “B & C” OF THE HAITI CEMETERY

By Sam Barber

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 8, 2024
• ISBN: 9798369401729

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Copyright © 2024 by Sam Barber.

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Rev. date: 05/08/2024

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Contents

Introduction

Images Before Rehabilitation

Images After Rehabilitation And Dedication Ceremony

Additional Alphabetical Listing Of Veterans

History Of The Haiti Cemetery

Row Lay Out Of Section B Of The Neighborhood Burial Grounds

Persons Interred In Section B Of The Neighborhood Society Burial Grounds

Alpha Index Of Section B

Row Lay Out Of Section C Of The Neighborhood Burial Grounds

Persons Interred In Section C Of The Neighborhood Society Burial Grounds

Alpha Index Of Section C Of The Haiti Cemetery

Volunteers

Appendix

INTRODUCTION

T HIS BOOK INCLUDES the Second Part of mapping of the Haiti Cemetery. I am deeply indebted to my parents, Celia Ann Brown Barber and Augustus Gus Barber, Sr., for the equipment and opportunities they bequeathed me in order to carry out this wonderful, amazing and important community project.

IMAGES BEFORE REHABILITATION

I NCLUDED IN THIS volume are images of the Haiti Cemetery before the Rehabilitation Project started in A Section.

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IMAGES AFTER REHABILITATION

AND DEDICATION CEREMONY

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ADDITIONAL ALPHABETICAL

LISTING OF VETERANS

A DDITIONAL ALPHABETICAL LISTING of Veterans Who Served in the Military from the Trenton School District to include Trenton, Comfort, Tuckahoe, Cypress Creek, Haughton Chapel and Holly Branch.

HISTORY OF THE HAITI CEMETERY

D URING SLAVERY, RECONSTRUCTION and the Jim Crow periods in American history, if Colored folks died w/o owning property or belonging to a church with a cemetery, their bodies were dumped along roadsides, thrown into ditches, lakes, creeks, holes or in rivers, or in open fields or wooded area to decay and left for buzzards, insects and other critters to consume their bodies. Unfortunately, Coloreds were treated as property or common animals to be discarded without regards to any standard of decency or of any human worth as being one of God’s special creations. No consideration or thought or privileged was given to a normal traditional burial. Fortunately, the Barbers, the Greenes, the Kornegays, the Brimages, the Barfields and a few other families owned property and their family members and neighbors were given a Christian ceremony and were buried in a family Graveyard/Cemetery.

To mitigate this common practice in the