Talk:Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery

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A fact from Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 August 2008, and was viewed approximately 3,123 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the historic Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina was periodically violated causing destruction to all of the headstones and some of the bodies?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/August.

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"portions of the Freedman’s Cemetery have been violated causing bodies to disintegrate and markers to be removed"

The violation caused markers to be removed. So what was the violation that caused the markers to move or be moved?
"causing bodies to disentegate" .... were they expected to last forever? Victuallers (talk) 21:38, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I used the wording from the sources. They didn't go into detail about what exactly happened. But apparently there were numerous incidents of vandalism involving both the grave markers and the bodies that caused pre-mature decay and destruction from 1903-1940.Nrswanson (talk) 22:40, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]