City leadership is moving to add another sign at the Lafayette Cemetery after members of the community argued a memorial installed at its northeast corner last fall did not adequately honor the roughly 200 people believed to be buried in unmarked graves.
At the direction of the City Council this week, city staff will begin work to add a third plaque to the memorial listing the names of those individuals. The memorial currently includes a QR code linked to a list of names online.
“This is a human rights and a civil rights issue at the cemetery,” said local historian Frank Archuleta, who helped research and document the potter’s field — a term historically used to describe burial grounds for individuals who were unidentified, unclaimed or whose families could not afford private burial arrangements…