Wayne Public Library, NJ

#DidYouKnow 1 of 3 Eloise cemeteries is surrounded by pine trees & Is the one used from 1910 to 1948

Early patients were buried by inmates & staff In 1937 the contract was given to Charles C. Diggs Sr.

How #WayneCounty MI Made The House Of Diggs Famous: #TheMoorYouKnow (White Sheets In Wooden Coffins)

1892 Bishop John Samuel Foley buried bodies NW of the CountyHouse next to an island in the reservoir

#HidStories👀 Most burials were of adult males, But there are women and a few infants and children:

Over 7,100 patients are buried in the Eloise cemetery, their graves marked only by numbered blocks:

#TheMoorYouKnow Wayne County MI Potter's Field; Buried The Poor Unclaimed Dead At The Public Expense

The presence of over 7,000 marked numbered but unnamed graves & The absence of many ledger records…

Blacks was elected to southern state legislatures as Republicans & served in the US Congress by 1900