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Massies Creek Cemetery LaVerne Sci of the Paul L. Dunbar State Memorial was on hand to give us a tour of three of the historical personages from the Xenia/Wilberforce area, including Hallie Q. Brown, Martin R. Delany, and Dr. Scarborough |
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| Ms. Sci pointed out a sad sight: Martin Robinson Delany's 1885 grave and stone had been eclipsed and overlaid by another plot. She urged all of us to visit our local cemetaries and check in on the older graves. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Adding insult to injury, Delany's name was misspelled on his stone, and he was with the 54th United States Colored Corps, while the stone read the 104th. Delany was a ranking black officer who helped during the Civil War to recruit the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers for Frederick Douglass, a doctor, a writer, and a publisher of The Black Star. At the end of his life he came to Wilberforce to teach. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Even in the humidity and heat, the group was emotionally involved with Ms. Sci's stories. | |||||||||||||||||||
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