Scottsville NewsLocal news for Scottsville, TX continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Group trying to regain access to black cemetery in East Texas- December 10, 2007 "You can get in right now if you have a helicopter, because there's nothing that can keep you out of that cemetery" Descendants of black people buried in an untended East Texas graveyard dating to the slavery era say they worry that a dispute with a timber company that owns land leading to the cemetery might permanently keep ... via Austin American-Statesmanhttp://www.topix.net/city/scottsville-tx/2007/12/group-trying-to-regain-access-to-black-ce... Group fighting to save Love Cemetery in East Texas- December 9, 2007 "When we got this cleaned, there was such a sense of jubilation, thinking of our forefathers. It was like they were saying, 'Well, it took you a long time, but you made it,' " Doris Vitatoe, 67, visits the grave site of her great-grandfather Ohio Taylor. Many of the grave markers have been misplaced. via The Dallas Morning Newshttp://www.topix.net/city/scottsville-tx/2007/12/group-fighting-to-save-love-cemetery-in-e... |