The unmarked graves of two indigenous brothers were finally given headstones at Maple Grove Cemetery, in Kew Gardens, 125 years after their deaths at the hands of a government-run Indian boarding school, where they contracted tuberculosis as a result of egregiously unsanitary conditions common in these schools across the country.
The brothers, Charles Edward Jones and Harry Jefferson Jones, were forcibly taken from their family homes by federal agents at the ages of 10 and 5, respectively, to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania in 1895. They returned home gravely ill in 1900 and died within the year at the ages of 15 and 11.
