Jim-Ree Museum co-founder and owner Aurolyn White brushes off vegetation from a fallen over headstone at the back of Pinetown Cemetery near Second Street Extension. Through memories and passed down stories, White and others in the area believe there could be graves of African Americans on property located on the opposite side of the street from the cemetery. (Photo by Scoggins)
When the Jim-Ree African American Museum took over ownership of Pinetown Cemetery, formerly known as St. Mary’s Cemetery in 2009, Aurolyn Hamm White began writing a book to help provide a compreh...

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