Fulshear Black Cemetery - Fulshear, TX
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jhuoni
N 29° 41.303 W 095° 54.277
15R E 218924 N 3287787
The gate here is locked and respectfully my photos were taken from the outside of the fence.
Waymark Code: WMWZQ0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/05/2017
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Although there are almost 300 documented interments very few headstones are visible. The ones that are visible are mostly modern granite markers. They do not appear to be laid out uniformly, yet rather in random groups. I could be mistaken as there could be horizontal headstones not visible from the fence.
A Texas Historical Marker here gives the historical information:
Oral tradition says that this cemetery begin as a slave cemetery on the plantation of Tennessee native Churchill Fulshear. Many early burials are unmarked, and the oldest headstone is that of Rebecca Scott in 1915. In addition, midwives, a chef, a horse trainer and cowboy, the first colored school house founders, business men and women, two local entrepreneurs, religious leaders, and veterans from WWI to the Vietnam War are buried here. The rual landscape of the rolling hills and trees surrounding a variety of headstones made of fieldstone, granite, marble, steel, homemade concrete, wood and resin. The cemetery is evidence of the rich heritage of the people in this area.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2010
From the Texas Historical Commission's Texas Historic Sites Atlas:
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Cemetery ID Number: FB-C041
Cemetery Name: Fulshear Black Cemetery
Additional Names: Fulshear Cemetery
Directions: From the traffic signal in Fulshear at the intersection of FM 359 and FM 1093, go .4 miles west on FM 1093. The Fulshear Black Cemetery is on the left (south) side of the road.
City: Fulshear
County: Fort Bend
Historic Texas Cemetery? Yes
Designation Date: 12/29/2010
Number of graves: 280
Burial Dates: 1905 to present