Friends of Geer Cemetery is continually seeking descendants of people buried in Geer Cemetery. Geer Cemetery is a historic African American burial ground in Durham NC that was used by the community beginning in the late 1800s. If you are a descendant of someone buried in Geer Cemetery, we would love for you to connect with us.<\/p>\n
Friends of Geer Cemetery strives to preserve both the physical sacred space and life stories. The Descendants Council gives descendants a chance to hear and provide input about the preservation efforts and the opportunity to share their ancestors’ life stories.<\/p>\n
Times for our monthly online meetings may vary. To receive email announcements of our meetings, or for more information, contact us at\u00a0descendants<\/a>@friendsofgeercemetery.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friends of Geer Cemetery is continually seeking descendants of people buried in Geer Cemetery. Geer Cemetery is a historic African American burial ground in Durham NC that was used by the community beginning in the late 1800s. If you are a descendant of someone buried in Geer Cemetery, we would love for you to connect… Read More »Geer Cemetery Descendants Council Meeting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-2751","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/2751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}