Workers with the Siloam Presbyterian Church Cemetery Beautification Project located 190 unmarked grave sites in northeast Charlotte. A Boone-based company, Seramur and Associates, brought in to assist with the project, used ground-penetrating radar at Siloam Cemetery Friday morning to detail the locations of the graves.
The Siloam Presbyterian Church once stood near the cemetery, located on Ridge Road. The church was destroyed by a fire in 1958. The restoration effort began four years ago to preserve the grounds and honor the families of those buried there.
Family members were in attendance during the process, including Denise Turner, who recently returned to Charlotte. Tuner’s great-grandparents, Frank and Amanda Lee, are buried in the cemetery. She said she wishes the sites were initially marked correctly.
“I don’t know how things were done back then, but it just appears that when someone is placed in a grave, that those graves should have been marked at that time,” Turner said…