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Melissa Pocock, left, of Friends of East End Cemetery probes for buried gravestones as Dr. Elizabeth P. Vaughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology at the University of Richmond, works to clear a tree limb. They were among a group of volunteers last Saturday who are beginning an effort to restore the long-neglected Sons and Daughters of Ham Cemetery that abuts university property off Three Chopt Road.

Melissa Pocock, left, of Friends of East End Cemetery probes for buried gravestones as Dr. Elizabeth P. Vaughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology at the University of Richmond, works to clear a tree limb. They were among a group of volunteers last Saturday who are beginning an effort to restore the long-neglected Sons and Daughters of Ham Cemetery that abuts university property off Three Chopt Road.

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