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Jul 19, 2022 · The headstone, enclosed by black metal fence, belongs to Walter Moses Burton, America’s first Black sheriff. Burton was born into slavery in North Carolina, though the exact year of his...
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Located at 401 N. Second St. in Richmond, the cemetery was founded in 1825 by William Morton when he buried a visitor who died while staying at his home.
Sep 19, 2009 · Later he erected a handmade brick tomb, the first known Masonic landmark in Texas. In an 1833 Brazos flood, Morton himself met death and his body was lost. His widow Nancy inherited Labor No. 1 and sold it to Handy & Lusk, promoters of the Richmond townsite.
Mar 6, 2020 · In one of the best-known actions, activists waged a successful 10-year battle to remove a parking lot and gain recognition for Richmond’s original public Burial Ground for Negroes, now called the African Burial Ground, at 15th and Broad streets.
Gillespie was the first person buried in what became Morton Cemetery. A brother mason, William Morton, erected his monument, also a first in Texas. Thomas Jefferson Smith 1808-1890 Smith was captured at Goliad but his life was spared to do gunsmith and blacksmith work for the Mexicans.
Aug 18, 2017 · At last count, more than half of the Richmond's 11,679 residents were Latino, a quarter were white and nearly one-fifth were black.
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Hutto was founded in 1876, and one of the first settlers was a Black man named Adam Orgain, a former enslaved person who was born in Tennessee. The first known burial at Shiloh was in 1866, about a century before cemeteries were no longer segregated in Texas, according to Copeland Hammons.
