Cache dedicated to forgotten resting places #2

This cemetery was used by the Mount Zion Williamson Creek Baptist Church beginning in the 1870s. It is unknown how many graves are in this cemetery, as most of the markers have deteriorated and the cemetery records have been lost.

“I learned about this place “Last weekend we strolled the Williamson Creek Cemetery, right by my newish home in South Austin. It’s a neglected African American cemetery that sits quietly and morosely near I-35 and some gauche chain restaurants, where unwitting diners happily carry on as ghosts gambol near their parked cars. The graveyard is a Texas historic spot that dates to the 1860s. Many of its guests were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. History rules.

We learned nothing there; there are no signs, explanations, plaques. Just broken markers and sunken areas marked by stakes flagged with neon-orange tape. We wondered who would be buried in such a forsaken field swallowed in wild grass and prickly vines. In June 2006, volunteers cleaned the place up, trimmed the foliage, perhaps pieced together smashed headstones in tremulous piles. Today, the cemetery is a shameful shambles, ramshackle rocks tilting in brushy desolation.”
Statesman Writer: Chris Garcia

Other Supporting Resources:

--Growth of Texas Cities Pushes the Dead Aside

--A Pioneer Family - Kinchion

--Keeping the dead visible

--Forgotten Graveyards

I hope you find this place as interesting as I did.