SALISBURY, N.C., Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — When Emily Perry began serving as a member of Salisbury’s Dixonville-Lincoln Memorial Task Force in 2010, she was unaware that her infant aunt was buried there. Thirteen years later, Perry is the Task Force’s chairperson and her aunt who was stillborn, is one of the 530 names recently engraved on the burial grounds’ granite memorials. More than 175 community members gathered at Dixonville Cemetery recently to celebrate the new memorials and honor those interred, including those still unidentified.
Fifty years ago the cemetery grounds were a centerpiece of the tight-knit Dixonville neighborhood in Salisbury, N.C., providing a well-worn pathway leading children to the nearby Lincoln Elementary School. Perry grew up in this East End community.