Category: Seay Chapel

• What is in a name? Stories beneath the stones…

  

  The Seay Chapel Cemetery, once a gathering place for worship and remembrance, is now a resting place for potentially 500 African American individuals. Some lived their entire life in slavery, others were born into slavery and found freedom in their lifetimes. Others were born free, but lived in a world that did not always treat…

  Trix’s Trax

  May 9, 2025

  Main Page, Seay Cemetery, Seay Chapel, Stories Beneath the Stones

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