Annual wreath-laying ceremony slated at Old African-American Cemetery

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Annual wreath-laying ceremony slated at Old African-American Cemetery
This granite marker underneath a magnolia tree marks a gravesite for unnamed African-Americans who drowned in Ebenezer Creek in 1865.
- photo by Mark Lastinger/staff
Leroy Lloyd pours a libation in the early portion of a previous wreath-laying ceremony.
- photo by Mark Lastinger/staff
 RINCON — Annually since 2016, Leroy Lloyd, a former president of the Effingham County Branch NAACP, has led a public wreath-laying ceremony at the Old African-American Cemetery located just outside the Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery near the New Ebenezer Retreat Center.

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