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Volunteers began the process Saturday to clean up an overgrown African American cemetery in Spring Park where nearly 200 people, including military veterans, were laid to rest dating back to the early 1900s.
After News4JAX reported that members of a Jacksonville church said they feel an overgrown African American cemetery in Spring Park has been neglected and forgotten, a Georgia family reached out and said their loved one’s gravesite was among those in deplorable condition.