A neglected Black cemetery held nearly ten times its allocated number of graves

Evidence

Once she pulled herself together, she took a picture of his marker and went home to see what information she could find about the life of Mr. James Streety. Born in March 1864, he married Henrietta Goldstein, who was also buried in the same cemetery. After she uploaded this information onto Find a Grave, she decided to record and upload all of Lincoln cemetery, which was originally allocated to hold seven hundred graves. By the time Denise was done, she had uploaded 6,892 markers. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 524