Historic family cemeteries in county risk overgrowth and destruction

On a small piece of land steps from a condominium and tennis courts in Oakland Mills in Howard County lies the grave of Eleanor A. Cooke, born 1795.

More than 150 years after her death, her headstone leans precariously, weeds sprouting around it. Nearby headstones lie broken on the ground.

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