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FedEx Employees Help Give Former Slave Cemetery in Texas Needed Makeover

Jammie Simon can point to the tree where the body of his great-grandfather, Minnie Shelton, was laid to rest. But like many of the nearly 200 former slaves and others buried at Shelton’s Bear Creek Cemetery in Irving, Texas, Simon’s great-grandfather, the former owner of the burial ground, no longer has a tombstone.

Elvia Limón | The Dallas Morning News
March 14, 2018