burying place

Founded around 1828, the cemetery was a burying place for at least 500 people enslaved on nearby plantations in Harris County.

It described “one quart of an acre of land wch. Has been used for a Burying place for a great many years” for the Tippetts and was “to remaine for a Burying place for their use forever.”

He said everything was included in the purchase except the “half acre of ground part of ye home lott aforementioned which hath heretofore been & still is for the use of a Ceimtery or burying place.”

Now, nobody usually ventured into the mountains because long ago one of them had been opened up and used as a burying place for princes.

There were trees and fields to the north of the Common and the burying place for Africans.