Advocates fear that in Dallas, where market forces perennially mow over history, the future is hardly secure for a 170-year-old Black cemetery that's lost in...
Advocates seek to protect this hallowed ground in perpetuity through Landmark Commission designation.
They can recite the decade-long timeline of the 1970s legal battle that temporarily succeeded in locking out family members who wanted only to care for their loved ones’ graves. Only with a landmark designation will the descendants of the names on these grave markers have confidence that the property, unknown to almost all of us, will be protected in perpetuity.
Here imposing pink granite tombstones and obelisks from the first half of the 1900s sit alongside much older markers whose lavish inscriptions have mostly weathered away. Antonia Suber and Sheniqua Cummings, two of the many volunteer advocates who have worked to save the White Rock Cemetery Garden of Memories.
But as farming played out and post-World War II development accelerated, many sold their land while others were pushed out. Antonia Suber removed the faded flowers on the cemetery marker of his mother, Everlee Suber, during a walk-through of the 3-acre site Wednesday. The cemetery’s best preservation news in some time arrived on a recent Saturday morning when a maintenance crew — with County Commissioner John Wiley Price overseeing things — did a much-needed deep cleanup and thorough mowing.
The White Rock Cemetery Garden of Memories, now surrounded by massive apartment complexes, is believed to include more than 420 gravesites. With the county resuming responsibility for maintenance, Suber can focus on upgrading the site’s pavilion, repairing and improving the wrought-iron gates and securing an entrance archway for the cemetery.
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