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  SAINT JOHN, N.B. -- The legacy of Abraham Walker deserves to be celebrated says a group working to do just that. Amateur historian Peter Little places a flag alongside a small wooden stake in the Church of England Cemetery, marking the spot he believes to be the final resting place of Walker. "Years ago, a man named Lennox Bagell took it upon himself to dig out all the known burials for this graveyard, and along with the burials was a map of all the burial plots," Little said."And Abraham Walker's family plot is on there." The grandson of runaway slaves from Virginia, Walker was born ...

Posted: Apr 04, 2021 8:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 4 Abraham Walker, who struggled to make a living in Saint John as Canada's first black lawyer, will finally have a headstone at his gravesite in the city.(Vaughan Memorial Library/Acadia University)

The late Mr. Jomaku Calvin Urey The remains of the late Mr. Jomaku Calvin Urey (commonly known as Calvin and JC)  is expected to be buried tomorrow, December 12, 2020, at the Urey’s cemetery in Careysburg, Lower Montserrado County. Mr. Urey died on Wednesday, November 25, 2020, at 6:30 a.m. in Columbia Green Memorial Hospital in Columbia, New York, United States of America. He was born unto the union of Mr. Daniel Webster Urey II and Mrs. Emma Boyce Urey in the city of Careysburg, Montserrado County, on September 25, 1949. He grew up in a Christian home and was imbued with Christian value...