Cemeteries

• Respectfully looked from afar metriaATX visited McRae Family Cemetery
• Update fellafromdrippin visited Preece Cemetery
• Tiny plot just off the trail Austin Explorer visited McRae Family Cemetery
• Small rural Cemetery Bing-GTX visited Rocky Hollow Cemetery
• A neglected cemetery Bing-GTX visited Burdett Prairie Cemetery

• Monument honoring Central TX Gold Star families dedicated in Cedar Park
• The Good Cemeterian: Restoring Veterans’ Tombstones
• Memorial Day Service Honored At Texas State Cemetery
• Gravestone found on hiking trail
• Funding needed to preserve historic cemetery

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Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves
China Galland
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By the eve of the Civil War, there were four million slaves in North America, and Harrison County was the largest slave-owning county in Texas. So when China Galland returned to research her family history there, it should not have surprised her to learn of unmarked cemeteries for slaves. "My daddy never let anybody plow this end of the field," a local matron told a startled Galland during a visit to her antebellum mansion. "The slaves are buried there." Galland's subsequent effort to help restore just one of these cemeteries—Love Cemetery—unearths a quintessential American story of prejudice, land theft, and environmental destruction, uncovering racial wounds that are slow to heal.