mr. herns, when we found this site, there were 12 burials here , and the only burial that had an inscription that we could read was for a little girl named marian. when i read it out loud, you had to crouch down, that was a metal marker he said that that was his , sister and that her burial, back in the 1920's when she was very young was the last time he had been in the cemetery because after his sister was buried, he grew up. he went into the military. he left virginia for a series of decades. by the time he came back, his grandmother had sold the land and the home he grew up in. and he was told, incorrectly, by some of the white neighbors that now that the family did not own the property it would be illegal for him -- he would be trespassing if he went back to the cemetery. to make matters worse, in the 1970's as he got older, he approached a lawyer about trying to get access to the site, and she told him, also incorrectly that if he would pay her she , would try to work the system for him. s