Despite legislative setback, congregation has hope 

Posted: 7:00 pm Sun, May 16, 2010
By Danny Jacobs
Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer

The oldest headstones in the Sunnyside cemetery predate the 120-year-old schoolhouse and the 110-year-old church on the property. The names they bear — Weedon and Jones and Rollins and Scott — are shared by the people who now make up the church’s 30-member congregation, the direct descendants of the freed slaves who purchased the property ...