🪦Radar finds two mass graves in a cemetery behind a Daviess County church

Only two headstones stand in the woods behind Mount Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church, but the ground under them tells a bigger story. 14 News reports that radar found two mass graves holding 29 people: 17 in one and 12 in the other.

Eyewitness News counts 56 graves at the site and says researchers think more may turn up under the debris. The Daviess County Public Library's Kentucky Room and the Daughters of the American Revolution are leading the work. The group is calling it the Douglas Family Cemetery, and the two stones still standing are Jack and Ellen Douglas's.

• Headstones date to about 1903
• Mass graves likely date to the late 1800s or early 1900s
• Next: more cleanup and a radar return, probably in spring
• Cemetery Club has asked fiscal court twice for a cemetery board

The group hopes to put up a historical marker so descendants know their ancestors are buried there, DAR librarian Alaina McDonald Esther said.