DALTON, Ga. (AP) – Workers have begun placing the first headstones on unmarked graves of children at a cemetery in northwest Georgia.
West Hill Cemetery in Dalton includes a paupers section for children up to 6 months old whose parents can’t afford to bury them, The Daily Citizen-News reported.
There are about 67 unmarked graves in the children paupers section of the city-owned cemetery.
Dalton resident Amanda Jones has been trying to raise awareness about all those unmarked graves, and she began a fund-raising campaign to place markers on them.
Jones visited the cemetery many times with her grandmother, Judy Alderman, and had noticed that many of the graves in the children paupers section did not have markers.