there are no burria ials in the cemetery by the family or anyone else. my archaeological evidence shows that this cemetery is really full. there's no room left. the cemetery had been neglected over the years. and starting about ten years ago, in fact, many of the monuments were no longer vertical. part of the enclosing brick wall had collapsed and vandals had pushed over the monument marking dolley madison's burial site, so we joined with the virginia chapter of the daughters of the american revolution and with the fund-raising abilities of those women and their patriotic fervor, we raised the money to fully restore the cemetery. we've rebuilt the brick wall. we stabilized the monuments, cleaned them, and restored them so that they would continue to mark the family presence here at montpelier for the foreseeable future. we're very grateful to the virginia chapter of the dar for taking on that project and bringing it to a successful conclusion. a great partner. he did have a will. in fact, it's in the records of the orange county courthouse. they have loa

it is markedly different from the madison family burria. it's not enclosed by a brick wall. it's here in an area where trees have subsequently grown up so it has received less attention by subsequent owners. let's go back and take a look. there are no markers of the grave sites here, and what gave -- the evidence that presented it self as the coffins were raised and collapsed, the ground above them settled so that a careful mapping of this area, a three-dimensional mapping, and you can actually see that in this computer schematic here, reveals that the ground here is actually pock marked with the remains of each of those graves. there are about 40 of them here. we think there are many other graves here as well. they likely were filled in when the slave community was still actively taking care of the chemistry prior to emancipation at the end of the civil war. some of the grave sites are actually marked with large stones. big quarts stones which is not too rare in this area, so they clearly were gathered and brought to this location and placed on the graves as a marker. but t