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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. 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.