AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CEMETERY was located in Whitebreast Twp #18
"...long abandoned .... [after a coal strike] in the early 1880's, ... east city limit of Cleveland [Jackson Twp] is the north-south road dividing Jackson and Whitebreast Twps. " Blacks who were hired to break a strike in the coal mining era at Lucas lived in the Whitebreast Twp area are known to have been buried there.
"No visible traces remain ... for an unknown number of people who lived and died in area."
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