FedEx Employees Help Give Former Slave Cemetery in Texas Needed Makeover
Style Magazine Newswire | 3/16/2018, 1:19 p.m.
Shelton’s Bear Creek Cemetery
Source: TTNews.com
Nearly 200 former slaves and others buried at Shelton’s Bear Creek Cemetery in Irving, Texas don’t have a tombstone. The small and often-forgotten cemetery was in need of much repair since it is only maintained by a handful of community members. That helping hand came in the form of some 50 FedEx employees, who raked leaves, cut the cemetery’s overgrown grass and cleared branches and stumps from the small property off State Highway 161. The volunteers saw the cleanup as a way of giving back. FedEx workers plan to go back to the cemetery that has already been designated as Texas Historical Marker four times a year to help clean and maintain the property. The community hopes to get the cemetery declared as a national historical landmark.
