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Documentary team to highlight efforts to save abandoned, historic Black cemetery


WBIR first reported about the cemetery, which dates to the 1840s, in July 2018.
This month, the Citizens Cemetery Group, with help from Earthadelic Landscaping, volunteers and the city, began the arduous process of cutting down and clearing out the thick scrub and vegetation that have taken over.
Nick Geidner, director of Land Grand Films and an associate professor at UT, said Friday several UT students, a staff member and himself have already been out to the site.
They plan to return Saturday and expect to set up local interviews soon and also identify regional or national experts who can lend perspective to the topic for the film. ....

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From left, Thomas Butcher and his mother and father, Janet and Tom Butcher of Michigan, pose at the gravestone of Payton Butcher at the Kincheloe-VanDiver-Butcher Cemetery within the Poor Farm Cemetery but pre-dating the Poor Farm Cemetery at West Virginia University at Parkersburg. The Butchers, researching their family ancestry, were in Wood County last month. (Photo Provided)
The gravestone of John Barnett at the Barnett Cemetery near the 4-H grounds in Wood County. Barnett, an early settler of Wood County, died in 1852. May is Remember a Rural Cemetery Month in Wood County. (Photo Provided)
Mary Mount Barnett, the second wife of John Barnett, died in 1861 and is buried at the Barnett Cemetery near the 4-H grounds. Hers and her husband’s stones are down and broken. (Photo Provided) ....

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