{"id":3774,"date":"2013-06-06T15:20:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2013-06-06T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:20:25","slug":"historian-leads-walter-pierce-park-dc-cemetery-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/historian-leads-walter-pierce-park-dc-cemetery-restoration.html","title":{"rendered":"Historian Leads Walter Pierce Park (DC) Cemetery Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat\u2019s off to Mary Belcher. A group she organized has been diligently restoring and documenting upwards of 10,000 persons who were buried in the Adams Morgan section of Walter Pierce Park in the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3775\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-0604-2013-mary-belcher-cemetery.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3775\" title=\"photo-0604-2013-mary-belcher-cemetery\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-0604-2013-mary-belcher-cemetery.png\" alt=\"photo of Mary Belcher leading effort to restore historic District of Columbia cemetery\" width=\"644\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-0604-2013-mary-belcher-cemetery.png 644w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-0604-2013-mary-belcher-cemetery-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-0604-2013-mary-belcher-cemetery-500x288.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Mary Belcher. Credit: WJLA-TV (District of Columbia).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over time the old grave markers have deteriorated and been lost. Mary\u2019s group is using the older records and evidence found on the site to document each person buried there. No small task.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this news report from local television station WJLA-TV to see what Mary and her group have accomplished so far in their cemetery restoration efforts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ji6OAPwCQxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adams Morgan Cemetery Fight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ji6OAPwCQxo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat\u2019s off to Mary Belcher. A group she organized has been diligently restoring and documenting upwards of 10,000 persons who were buried in the Adams Morgan section of Walter Pierce Park in the District of Columbia. Over time the old grave markers have deteriorated and been lost. Mary\u2019s group is using the older records and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[3152,5360,5366,5426,5445,481],"class_list":["post-3774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-adams","tag-morgan","tag-news","tag-records","tag-television","tag-tv"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}