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Wheat Community African Burial Ground
May 31, 2004
Related Link: The Wheat Community and
George Jones Memorial Baptist Church and Cemetery
Location: In this topographical
map view, it is the "slave cem" at the east side of Oak Ridge
Highway where it goes North-South, just to the south of the power line
that goes East-West. Here is an aerial
view.
CEMETERY
DO NOT DISTURB
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Text From Monument:
Wheat Community
John Henry and Elizabeth Inman Welcker owned and operated a plantation
named Laurel Banks as early as 1810 and possibly 1805. This plantation
was located along the banks of the Clinch River where the East
Tennessee Technology Park (formerly the K-25) Plant now stands.
John Henry died in 1838 and Elizabeth died in 1840. In 1847 John
Hamilton Gallaher Sr. bought Laurel Banks. According to the 1860
Roane County Census, George Gallaher, Sr.'s estate was valued at
$36,000. This included $25,000 worth of land and at least 19 slaves.
This cemetery, now named the Wheat Community African American Burial
Ground, was formerly known as Atomic Energy Commission Cemetery #2 -
Slave Cemetery, and was sometimes referred to as the Gallaher - Stone
cemetery. In 1979, Dorothy Moneymaker, a resident of the Wheat
Community, counted between 90 and 100 graves with no inscribed markers
located within the cemetery. It is presumed that slaves who once
belonged to the Welckers and Gallahers and some their descendents are
buried here. It is also possible that slaves and their descendents who
lived on other farms in the area are buried here. Some of the other
families that owned slaves and lived in the vicinity were the Burums,
Carmichaels, Staples, Henleys, Ellis, and Rathers. We will never know
the names of those buried here.
Text From Monument:
WHEAT
COMMUNITY AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND
ROANE COUNTY, TENNESSEE
THIS
CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL
IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY
OF THESE AFRICANS
WHO WERE IN AMERICA
IN BONDAGE,
RATHER THAN BY CHOICE
AND LIVED, WORKED AND DIED
IN BONDAGE IN
THE WHEAT COMMUNITY
When I [can] Read My Title Clear
To Mansions In The Skies,
I’ll Bid Farewell To Every Fear,
And Wipe My Weeping Eyes.
Isaac Watts
(1674–1748)
MAY 26, 2000
ATTRIBUTION: Hymns
and Spiritual
Songs. Book ii. Hymn 65.
Related Links
ORNL employees visit
burial ground
REASON: The visit was just
one of many events the lab has conducted as part of Black History
Month.
(OakRidger , February
26, 2004)
Minter gives history of slavery in this area (OakRidger, January
21, 2003)
Slave cemetery given new name in ceremony
(OakRidger, June 5,
2000)
Memorial dedication at former slave burial ground
(OakRidger, May 22,
2000)
Wheat Community African Burial Ground To Be Dedicated Monument to
Memorialize Region's Early African-Americans (DOE Press Release, May
9, 2000)
Things
to See and Do
AEC
#2 - Slave Cemetery
WHEAT COMMUNITY
AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND
ROANE COUNTY, TENNESSEE
Related Link: The Wheat Community and
George Jones Memorial Baptist Church and Cemetery
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