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Inside the search for tombstones from the Columbian Harmony Cemetery, where 37,000 Black D.C. residents were once buried
Four years ago, Virginia State Senator Richard Stuart and his wife Lisa were exploring their new farm on the Potomac River when they saw something in the water that brought tears to her eyes and made him feel ill. Lisa and I looked at each other, and both of us said, is that a headstone? Then we looked, and we saw another and another and another, the lawmaker told CBS News Chip Reid. It was just a horrible feeling to think that this person s headstone was here on our shoreline… and not where it belonged with her body, where her family could grieve and mourn and remember her life, Lisa said.
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