Thanks to the interest and generosity of a West Marlborough resident, two massive and mostly dead oak trees were cut down on Oct. 29 at the old Mount Olive AME Church cemetery on Upland Road. The worry was that if the trees fell, they could disturb some of the graves.
At least six African-American Civil War soldiers are buried in the abandoned cemetery. The last burial there was in 1944.
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| Flags mark the graves of African-American veterans. |
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| The two huge trees were cut down on Oct. 29. |
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| The headstone for Civil War veteran John Dorsey and his wife Rebecca. |
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