Outrage as Jacksonville man's grave is placed in very unfortunate place - after hero died protecting woman during attack

A sedate of a Jacksonville, Florida, 'hero' is located successful an different spot - a sidewalk.

The sedate belonging to nan precocious Thompson Williams is successful nan mediate of a walkway successful Durkeeville, Florida. 

The sedate is located correct adjacent to nan Emmett Reed Park and Community Center, according to News4JAX on July 9.

Williams died by gunshot coiled successful 1908 aft he protected 'the grant and life' of a female from what The Florida Times-Union called a 'fiend' who fired 2 shots astatine her.

He was buried successful what utilized to beryllium nan Mount Herman Cemetery aft his death, and he has remained nether nan actual ever since. 

The Mount Herman Cemetery was chiefly for Jacksonville's achromatic citizens, making love backmost to nan 1880s.

By 1953, astir of nan cemetery had go a park, which historiographer Ennis Davis recovered makes it special.

'This parkland is unsocial because it is Jacksonville’s largest 19th-century African American cemetery,' Davis told News4JAX.

According to Davis, nan remodeling is really nan unfortunate sedate tract was created.

'This unsocial should fto you cognize that nan improvement of this thoroughfare and its infrastructure was built complete a cemetery, and they moved nan sedate successful nan mediate of nan sidewalk conscionable to do it,' he said.

Davis did a spot of investigation connected his ain and recovered an 1800s representation that gave a layout of nan legendary cemetery.

'I came crossed an 1800s representation of Jacksonville that had a zoomed-in representation of ownership successful nan LaVilla area, and this was identified arsenic nan Mount Herman Cemetery,' he said.

The revamp began successful nan 1940s aft personification from nan Francis L’Engle family donated nan cemetery to nan city.

Nearly each bodies were removed successful nan years aft nan donation, and nan Emmett Reed Park and Community Center was yet built connected apical of nan cemetery.

Hardly immoderate headstones are near successful what utilized to beryllium nan Mount Herman Cemetery, and nan crippled is only large capable for 1 family.

Other than Williams, nan Fagin family has remained successful nan aforesaid resting spot since they died successful nan 1900s, 1 of whom was a US subject veteran.

Jacksonville autochthonal Freddie Paney knew astir nan erstwhile cemetery's beingness since he was little, and he's not judge really its humanities demolition tin beryllium fixed.

'What they should do is put a large motion up and fto group cognize that it was a cemetery,' said Paney.