Volunteers working to uncover burial sites at College Park cemetery during Veterans Day event – CBS News

Volunteers working to uncover burial sites at College Park cemetery during Veterans Day event  CBS News

On Veterans Day, the One Square Mile Project is hosting a special event to honor those who served at College View Cemetery. While the group plans to recognize veterans, they're soliciting help from volunteers to uncover burial sites of those who've been laid to rest at the cemetery."We want people to come out and get engaged in what we are doing because it is necessary. This grave site has been here for almost 130 years, and it is time for these people to be honored and their dignity replaced," said community leader Gloria Robinson-Abdullah. Earlier this year, volunteers began a community-wide mission to uncover the graves of those buried there. They uncovered multiple areas, but brush and overgrown trees cover many more.Leaders said they've already uncovered many graves, including a few burial sites of World War I veterans.College Park resident Ercell Brown comes out on Saturdays to lend a helping hand during the cleanup.

She said she's anticipating the day the group finally finds her family's graves. "My mother Lodi Miller, my grandmother Alice Hunt, my grandfather Eugene Hunt, and my brother Claude Miller are there," Brown said."I have a picture of their headstones that are broken, but I know what they look like, so that is what we are looking for: those markers," she added.She said everyone lived together