LR group works to preserve cemetery
It’s prominent resting place for blacks
Posted: September 6, 2012 at 5:19 a.m.
B.J. McCoy (right), chairman of the board of the Friends of Haven of Rest Cemetery, and board member Sammie Holmes point out some of the problems, including poor drainage and overgrown headstones, at the Haven of Rest Cemetery on Wednesday at 7102 W. 12th Street in Little Rock.
Before Patricia A. McCoy-Scarborough’s death last August, she worked for years to preserve the graves of relatives and friends at Haven of Rest Cemetery in Little Rock as a volunteer with Friends of Haven of Rest Cemetery Inc. She is now buried at the cemetery.
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