The burial ground is a 1.26-acre parcel carved out of 57 acres owned by Jane Warren, who was born into slavery in 1825 in Alabama.
The Hockley-Clay Cemetery, located in Northeast San Antonio, has been recognized as a cultural heritage district by the Historic and Design Review Commission.After at least seven years of intense study by historians, archaeologists and others, a small San Antonio cemetery that dates to the late 19th century has been recognized as a cultural heritage district.
It is located near Uhr Lane in Northeast San Antonio, now the Northern Hills subdivision. Michael Wright’s fact-finding mission led him to David Carlson, an archivist with the Bexar County Spanish Archives, who helped him piece together historic deeds and other documents. Wright then met with architect Everett Fly, a founder of the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum.
Clay’s grandmother, Easter Jane Hockley Clay , had lived on the land until it was sold in 1975, all except for the cemetery. Clay remembers attending funerals at the cemetery as a child and recalls seeing headstones, including that of the great-uncle. Over time, the cemetery was vandalized and overgrown, and the headstones are no longer in place.
While fragments of the burial markers and other materials have been found by a UTSA Center for Archaeological Research team working on the site, another group from Texas A&M University using ground-penetrating radar scans has not definitively shown where human remains exist in the cemetery.
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