Mysterious Ten Cemetery

This historic burial site is the final resting place of many poor and working class residents who lived in the Knoxville neighborhood once known as The Bottom. The Sisters of the Mysterious Ten were the women's auxiliary of The United Brotherhood of Friendship, a fraternal organization founded before the US Civil War by enslaved and Free African Americans. After Emancipation, this fraternal entity would see robust expansion and membership totaling in the tens of thousands. The Sisters of the Mysterious Ten provided philanthropic and charity support for Black families post-Reconstruction that included burial assistance for it's members.