Tamina-Sweet Rest Cemetery Keeps a Community's Memory in Place

Tamina-Sweet Rest Cemetery sits east of the railroad tracks off Woodson Road. It is also known as Tamina Cemetery and Tamina African American Cemetery.

More than 75 graves are recorded there, with burial dates from 1879 to 2006. That long span matters. It ties Tamina's roads and houses today to family names that were being kept in this ground for more than a century.

A cemetery note needs a careful tone. This is not an attraction in the usual sense. It is a community memory place. For someone trying to understand Tamina, the cemetery record is a reminder that local identity is not only courthouses, depots, and park trails. Sometimes it is a quiet burial ground that keeps names, dates, and family roots from being lost under newer maps.