Before this year, the most recent deed for the Point of Rocks Colored Cemetery was from 1879 — when the cemetery was established. In February of this year, 146 years later, a Maryland Circuit ...

A city-owned cemetery, 2023, in the deed, cannot bury Black humans.” This year alone, several people of color have been buried at the IOOF Cemetery, according to published obituaries.

The issue of whether Butte-Silver Bow will acquire the Melrose Cemetery won’t be laid to rest for at least two more weeks. Commissioners question cemetery deed proposal Skip to main content Skip ...

DENTON, Texas — The deed says Black people cannot be buried in the city-owned IOOF cemetery in Denton. So, Denton Mayor Gerard Hudspeth, the city’s first Black mayor, tried to pass a measure ...

Reams’ family acquired a cemetery plot in the 1940s and she has the original deed, but Raper said that isn’t enough. He said Donna Reams needs to prove she’s an heir to the plot in order to ...

DENTON, Texas — The City of Denton announced Tuesday that it has removed discriminatory language from the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Cemetery deed. The language contained in the ...

The language contained in the 1933 deed said Black people could not be buried in the city-owned IOOF cemetery in Denton. The cemetery is named after a fraternal organization that was formed as a ...

Before this year, the most recent deed for the Point of Rocks Colored Cemetery was from 1879 — when the cemetery was established.

A deed from 1933 says that nonwhite people cannot be buried at IOOF Cemetery in Denton, but in 2016, the City Council condemned the deed restriction, which was not enforced.