{"id":7385,"date":"2017-05-17T16:44:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T20:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2017-05-17T16:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T20:44:49","slug":"learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn about a forgotten cemetery Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';\">It lies in a stand of trees at the edge of a former pasture that will soon sprout homes, apartments, businesses and stores. Many of the remaining markers are toppled or broken because of vandals and neglect through the years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';\">Members of Friendship Chapel Missionary Baptist Church knew of the cemetery and several members worked to clear out brush and restored monuments in recent years. The church still owns the land for the forgotten cemetery where older generations of the church are buried.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';\">But now, thanks to the efforts of the church, the Wake Forest Historical Association members and a grant from the Jandy Foundation, Jan and Andy Ammons and their daughter, a lot of the past is being uncovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';\">The grant paid for a ground-penetrating radar search of the cemetery in February, a search which revealed 400 marked and unmarked graves, 277 possible graves and one possible unmarked grave where it is believed people were buried together in haste during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918. The study was done by Wake Forest\u2019s Ellen Turco, a senior historian with New South Associates, and the GPR team from New South Associates. The group concluded there were at least 567 individual burials in the cemetery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';\">A forum about the cemetery, the GPR search and the findings will be held Sunday, May 21, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Wake Forest Historical Museum on North Main Street. It is a free event and refreshments will be served.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It lies in a stand of trees at the edge of a former pasture that will soon sprout homes, apartments, businesses and stores. Many of the remaining markers are toppled or broken because of vandals and neglect through the years. Members of Friendship Chapel Missionary Baptist Church knew of the cemetery and several members worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Learn about a forgotten cemetery Sunday - The Wake Forest Gazette - Local News &amp; Events in Wake Forest, NC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It lies in a stand of trees at the edge of a former pasture that will soon sprout homes, apartments, businesses and stores. Many of the remaining markers\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Learn about a forgotten cemetery Sunday - The Wake Forest Gazette - Local News &amp; Events in Wake Forest, NC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It lies in a stand of trees at the edge of a former pasture that will soon sprout homes, apartments, businesses and stores. Many of the remaining markers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Wake Forest Gazette - Local News &amp; Events in Wake Forest, NC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-17T20:44:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Wake Forest Gazette\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Wake Forest Gazette\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Wake Forest Gazette\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/66e690fb475301b8d731cb08cdafa0fe\"},\"headline\":\"Learn about a forgotten cemetery Sunday\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-17T20:44:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/\"},\"wordCount\":247,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Featured News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/\",\"name\":\"Learn about a forgotten cemetery Sunday - The Wake Forest Gazette - Local News &amp; Events in Wake Forest, NC\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-17T20:44:49+00:00\",\"description\":\"It lies in a stand of trees at the edge of a former pasture that will soon sprout homes, apartments, businesses and stores. Many of the remaining markers\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Learn about a forgotten cemetery Sunday\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Wake Forest Gazette - Local News &amp; Events in Wake Forest, NC\",\"description\":\"Read the latest local news and find local events in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Wake Forest news is published weekly.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Wake Forest Gazette\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/wake-forest-gazette-logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/wake-forest-gazette-logo.png\",\"width\":4154,\"height\":488,\"caption\":\"Wake Forest Gazette\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/66e690fb475301b8d731cb08cdafa0fe\",\"name\":\"Wake Forest Gazette\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Learn about a forgotten cemetery Sunday - The Wake Forest Gazette - Local News &amp; Events in Wake Forest, NC","description":"It lies in a stand of trees at the edge of a former pasture that will soon sprout homes, apartments, businesses and stores. Many of the remaining markers","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Learn about a forgotten cemetery Sunday - The Wake Forest Gazette - Local News &amp; Events in Wake Forest, NC","og_description":"It lies in a stand of trees at the edge of a former pasture that will soon sprout homes, apartments, businesses and stores. Many of the remaining markers","og_url":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/","og_site_name":"The Wake Forest Gazette - Local News &amp; Events in Wake Forest, NC","article_published_time":"2017-05-17T20:44:49+00:00","author":"Wake Forest Gazette","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Wake Forest Gazette","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/"},"author":{"name":"Wake Forest Gazette","@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/66e690fb475301b8d731cb08cdafa0fe"},"headline":"Learn about a forgotten cemetery Sunday","datePublished":"2017-05-17T20:44:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/"},"wordCount":247,"commentCount":2,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Featured News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/","url":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/","name":"Learn about a forgotten cemetery Sunday - The Wake Forest Gazette - Local News &amp; Events in Wake Forest, NC","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-05-17T20:44:49+00:00","description":"It lies in a stand of trees at the edge of a former pasture that will soon sprout homes, apartments, businesses and stores. Many of the remaining markers","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/learn-forgotten-cemetery-sunday\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Learn about a forgotten cemetery Sunday"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/","name":"The Wake Forest Gazette - Local News &amp; Events in Wake Forest, NC","description":"Read the latest local news and find local events in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Wake Forest news is published weekly.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#organization","name":"Wake Forest Gazette","url":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/wake-forest-gazette-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/wake-forest-gazette-logo.png","width":4154,"height":488,"caption":"Wake Forest Gazette"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/66e690fb475301b8d731cb08cdafa0fe","name":"Wake Forest Gazette"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7386,"href":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions\/7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeforestgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}