Poet Yolanda “Y-O” Latimore shared many stories of the people buried in the cemetery in hopes to raise awareness of Linwood Cemetery
MACON, Ga. — As Halloween draws near, there may be nothing fitter for the spooky season than a tour of a cemetery.
Poet Yolanda “Y-O” Latimore took interested guests through the Linwood Cemetery to share stories of the many people buried there.
The Linwood Cemetery, which was founded in 1894, is a burial site specifically for Black individuals, according to a press release.
The release notes that the cemetery has records of around 4,000 burials. The burials were marked by headstones, but sometimes by trees planted by families, caskets and various bodies beneath patches of green spaces.
Years ago, the Macon Cemetery Preservation Corporation, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving abandoned and neglected cemeteries in Bibb County, started a Historic Linwood Cemetery Endowment Fund under the Community Foundation of Central …