In 2018, the operator of Wrightsville’s Mount Pisgah Cemetery Facebook page noted that the cemetery was in desperate need of maintenance and repairs.

A Mississippi man cut his way through thickets of thorns in search of lost Black graves in an all-but-abandoned town.

Blame it on the gravedigger. As the story goes, he's responsible for the incorrect layout of the St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery at 401 S. Adams Ave., in Rayne, which caught the eye of "Ripley ...