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Fort Bend announces $4M freedmen’s cemetery investment with African American memorial

Fort Bend County’s first African American memorial will be erected in Kendleton’s historic Black cemetery after officials announced a $4 million initial investment to revitalize the park that is home to the burial grounds.

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February 27, 2023 12:00 AM
Fort Bend announces $4M freedmen’s cemetery investment with African American memorial

Houston Chronicle

Claire Goodman | Staff writer

Fort Bend County’s first African American memorial will be erected in Kendleton’s historic Black cemetery after officials announced a $4 million initial investment to revitalize the park that is home to the burial grounds.

Dexter McCoy, newly elected commissioner for Fort Bend County Precinct 4, on Monday detailed the plans to clean up the cemetery in Bates Allen Park. The cemetery is the final resting place for many formerly enslaved people, including Benjamin Franklin Williams, the first Black member of the Texas House of Representatives.

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