Please help with this project. You may help with a donation of time, materials and/or money. If you are willing to help, or just want more information, please contact the following people:

R. Kelly Bryant, Jr.
E-mail: RKBryantJr@aol.com
Phone: 919-596-7100

Jessica Thompson Eustice
E-mail: JTEustice@nc.rr.com
Phone: 919-680-4919

Colored Burying Ground North of City Need Attention.

The colored burying grounds, or cemetery, just beyond Mr. F. C. Geer's, out on the Roxboro road, is in rather bad shape. Numbers of the graves have sunken in, and in some instances not a thing can be seen to even indicate exactly where some of the graves are located. There are traces of where fire has recently burned the grass and straw over a portion of the burying ground, and several of the pine boards at the head and foot of the graves were burned, destroying all mark to show where the graves were.

A gentleman tells us that not very long ago, on one of the head boards he noticed that some vandal had written some very unbecoming words. As soon as the gentleman saw it, he very properly set about to erase them and succeeded in doing so. A person, be he white or colored, that would stoop to such a despicable act, is mean enough to do anything and is not entitled to the respect of decent people.

The burying ground certainly needs attention. Interments are still being made there, some having taken place during the month of December. A year or so ago we mentioned the fact that this burying ground should be attended to, but nothing has been done, and in consequence it is rapidly going to ruin.

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Listing of burials

Listing of burials in the Geer Cemetery as extracted from the Durham County Vital Records - Death Notices.
Listing of Burials

G.U.O.O.F. Lodge 2970

Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (G.U.O.O.F.) Founded in 1843 in the U.S. as a mainly black fraternal organization parallel to the IOOF.