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Some of them - maybe a lot, maybe most, maybe just a few; I don't think anyone knows for sure - were brought back to the Hamburg area and buried in the graveyard of the Methodist Episcopal South church. That graveyard was bulldozed and a levee was built over some of it back in the 1930s when all the flood control projects were going on in the area. It no longer exists. Years back I talked to some old-timers who remembered the graveyard, but the church was gone long before that. The church grounds were on land donated by the Smith and Calliham families, on the common border of the two plantations.

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