Richmond Free Press
B4 June 14-16, 2018
Faith News/Directory
Enrichmond announces team to oversee Evergreen Cemetery restoration By Jeremy M. Lazarus
who helped shape Richmond. The foundation bought the privately owned Evergreen Cemetery in May 2017 with state help, just two months before the state for the first time began providing funds to help tend graves in the historic African-American cemetery. “We’re coming together as a community, as family, to make it right,” said the Rev. H. Creed Taylor Jr., an associate minister of Saint Paul’s Baptist Church, a member of the new advisory team and descendant of several individuals buried in Evergreen, including a Civil War veteran. “The journey is just beginning, and there’s a lot of good, hard work ahead,” he said. Other members of the advisory team include Viola O. Baskerville, a former state secretary of administration, former member of the Virginia House of Delegates and former Richmond City Council member; Richmond jeweler Richard Waller Jr.; Dr. Johnny Mickens III,
The Richmond-based Enrichmond Foundation, the new owner of the historic Evergreen Cemetery in the city’s East End, has announced the creation of a community planning and review team to oversee restoration. John Sydnor, foundation executive director, stated that 30 people gathered last week for the first meeting of the team that the foundation wants to play a big role in the cemetery’s future. He said the plan is for the team to guide change for the previously neglected cemetery that is the final resting place of businesswoman Maggie L. Walker; crusading editor John Mitchell Jr.; physician and hospital founder Dr. Sarah Garland Boyd Jones; and 10,000 other African-Americans. The team’s creation is the latest step for the foundation’s effort to maintain and protect the cemetery and make it a center of history education about those
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great-grandson of Mrs. Walker; and John Mitchell, great-greatnephew of the renowned editor of the Richmond Planet, Mr. Sydnor said. Cemetery volunteer leaders also are members, including Veronica Davis, an author who helped raise awareness about the cemetery and its condition; retiree John Shuck, who has been a volunteer for more than a decade and real estate broker Marvin Harris, who organized Evergreen volunteers for the past two years, Mr. Sydnor said. So are Marilyn Campbell of the African American Historical and Genealogical Society; Mary Lauderdale of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia; Janine Y. Bell of the Elegba Folklore Society; and Ajena Rogers of the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, he said. Evergreen, which dates to 1891, was envisioned to be the African-American version of Hollywood Cemetery, but
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declined because of the failure to collect money for grave maintenance. It is the largest of the four African-American cemeteries that sit along the city’s border with Henrico County. Two of the cemeteries, which also had been neglected, are owned by the City of Richmond, which eventually is expected to turn over ownership or control to Enrichmond. During the past two decades, volunteer groups have led the effort to maintain Evergreen and East End Cemetery. Mr. Shuck has led the volunteer effort to restore East End Cemetery for more than five years and now leads a group called Friends of East End that focuses on that cemetery. In concert with Mr. Harris and Mr. Shuck, Mr. Sydnor said 1,500 volunteers have been recruited in the past year to participate in regular Saturday morning community cleanups in the cemeteries.
Mr. Sydnor said Enrichmond also has hosted workdays for church groups and corporate groups. As a result, more than two miles of pathways have been reopened, Mr. Sydnor said, allowing families access to gravesites that weeds and other greenery have long covered up. Enrichmond is now undertaking action in Henrico County Circuit Court to acquire East End, which also dates to the 1890s and was abandoned years ago by its previous owners.
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