{"id":29701,"date":"2013-11-14T20:32:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29701"},"modified":"2013-11-14T20:32:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:32:41","slug":"shelby-city-cemetery-project-rediscovering-graves-of-slaves-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29701","title":{"rendered":"Shelby City Cemetery Project Rediscovering Graves Of Slaves &#038; Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is from an interesting article posted in the November 13, 2013 edition of <em>The Interior Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>JUNCTION CITY [Kentucky]<\/strong> \u2014 Jordan Wallace Jr. lived 29 years as a slave, three years as a soldier and 71 years as a free man.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 75 years after his death \u2014 and 178 years after he was born \u2014 Wallace\u2019s final resting place is being rediscovered, along with the graves of dozens of other African-Americans, in a small cemetery plot just inside Lincoln County that had seemed to be nothing but an overgrown forest for decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very exciting to uncover things that have been hidden and invisible for so long,\u201d said Cindy Peck, director at Eastern Kentucky University\u2019s Danville campus.<\/p>\n<p>Peck and a new student genealogy club at the satellite campus have been visiting what\u2019s known as the Shelby City African-American Cemetery for the past three Saturdays, clearing away trees and underbrush as part of a volunteer service project.<\/p>\n<p>The cemetery, named for the community that used to exist in the area until around 1926, was first used as a gravesite as early as the 1700s and as late as 1952, according to those researching it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralkynews.com\/theinteriorjournal\/news\/local\/lincoln_county\/shelby-city-cemetery-project-rediscovering-graves-of-slaves-and-soldiers\/article_613b80a6-4c83-11e3-b9eb-0019bb30f31a.html\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is from an interesting article posted in the November 13, 2013 edition of The Interior Journal JUNCTION CITY [Kentucky] \u2014 Jordan Wallace Jr. lived 29 years as a slave, three years as a soldier and 71 years <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29701\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Shelby City Cemetery Project Rediscovering Graves Of Slaves &#038; Soldiers<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-cemeteries","category-kentucky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29703,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29701\/revisions\/29703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}