CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. (CBS46) – Metro Atlanta households allege plots of family members are ‘missing’ after a reburial venture set for completion six years in the past.

Along West Lee Mill Road sits personal plant Luck Stone Quarry. Part of its property was as soon as house to a century’s price of Black burials, remembers Reverend Joseph Wheeler.

“This used to be the Union Bethel AME Church and cemetery,” he mentioned exterior the plant. Adding, “even dating back to 1850, yes.”

Wheeler says enslaved households had been additionally among the many almost 1,000 cemetery plots again then. But now, 343 of them are on the middle of recent month-to-month protests.

The Clayton and Henry County Chapter of National Action Network (NAN) is accusing the property house owners of not following by way of on a plan to maneuver all of the burials 10 minutes away to Carver Memorial Gardens.

“History matters, family matters, to pass on knowledge and legacy of your people to your children, to your grandchildren, our cemeteries are important,” mentioned Wheeler, who can be the Vice President of the native NAN chapter.

Officials over the venture confirmed in earlier years it will happen in phases from 2009 to 2016.

Adding, the method was accomplished with the inserting of the bench and plaque of their honor. But Wheeler alleges, as of current day, households have requested however not acquired proof of 343 stays being re-buried there.

“To desecrate the graves and to give no account for it is to pour salt in the wound.”

NAN plans to take authorized steps claiming administration has gone silent. CBS46 made a number of makes an attempt Friday for remark with the corporate and workplace administration at Carver Memorial. But we’re nonetheless awaiting an official assertion.

“We will be protesting every month until we have a meeting with them or until we take other action,” mentioned Wheeler.

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