Interesting Black American cemetery..........

[Kelley (Texas)]

This old Black American cemetery is associated with an old community that I am presently researching for a story. It is remote and you drive over two cattle guards across private property to reach it. This was a poor community and this is reflected by some of the tombstones being home made, and other graves only having simple markers. This cemetery is still being used and the later tombstones are larger and more like the common ones found through out South Texas. Kelley (Texas)

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[Bayrat76]

Heck Fred you know how many of these old ranches had old cemetery on them, so many are now lost in the brush country. No one had the money for a funeral, so bury them behind the house. The place I hunt now has a pasture called the cemetery pasture, I have looked a for graves a couple of times never found one yet. It is about a section of land. It is shown a map to be listed that way too, I saw the map from the man who we leased from. Keep up all the good work.

 

[Royal]

I have seen old Cemetery like that in my travels, in fact there were several out in the boonies on Cherry Point. When I was an MP there we would sometimes do some exploring and we ran across some way back in the swamps. They were really spooky with all the Spanish moss a hanging down and all.

Those home made stones are still in pretty good condition. I have seen them up here where you could not read them at all because of the weathering. Our winters can be cruel!

 

[Micheal_R]

The stories that they could tell.. And the history behind them. I remember my youth in Courtenay... and even back then, the old Cumberland cemetery held a fascination for me. Many of the stones marked the graves of what could only be described as kids. They were 15 to 19 years old... killed while working in the mines.

Fair winds

Micheal

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

in different ways over the years. When I was young, they were sorta spooky and were associated with ghost stories, but now I associate them with history. I must confess that once in awhile, I will come across an old cemetery that makes me feel uneasy, makes me think that it is best to take the pictures and leave. Several years ago, I came across an old cemetery over in Wilson County that had five graves in a small cluster, all were the same family that had the exact same death date. All that I remember was that the death date was in the late 1800's. As I stood there looking at the markers, I became uneasy and a chill went down my back, just a tab of unexplained fear too! I felt like I was not alone, but no one else was at that cemetery but me. Needless to say, I wasted no time getting to my truck and leaving the area, something was just not right at that place. Kelley (Texas)