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Green Grove Cemetery, 61-1 Summary Report, page 11
While it seems that only white people owned the land of the cemetery until at least 1912, the character of the cemetery appears to fit an early black and/or slave cemetery. Considering the size of the cemetery, it could easily hold around a thousand graves, if full. It would only make sense for a cemetery to be that large if it were used for burials of those with many slaves and then for a community with a large black population after emancipation. That logic strongly suggests that this was the cemetery used by the slaves of possibly Benjamin Bledsoe, but almost certainly those of Gross Scruggs and Richard Holding. It has already been shown that Gross Scruggs had over 40 slaves around the time that he owned this parcel of land. Below is shown the 1840 census record for the Richard Holding household, which included 98 slaves:
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