Cemetery clean-up: City to address rundown appearance of Oaklawn Cemetery

  • A family gravesite in Oaklawn Cemetery with an overturned tombstone, dilapidated brick wall and high grass is a common site at the local cemetery. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
    A family gravesite in Oaklawn Cemetery with an overturned tombstone, dilapidated brick wall and high grass is a common site at the local cemetery. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

    Bricks from the entrance are cracked or missing. Weeds and grass have overgrown portions of the fencing. A tree is growing through an unidentified Confederate soldier’s headstone and other grave stone…