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Cottonwood Community Cemetery

Hondo, Medina County, Texas, USA

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Get directions Hondo, Texas, USA

Coordinates: 29.37330, -99.13560
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Description: Cottonwood Community Cemetery a African American Cemetery.

A single, large cottonwood tree stood on the Hondo Creek near a perpetual spring, which the two communities, (North Bank Creek Colony and Mission Valley) used for water. This tree was the inspiration for naming the community cemetery.

Located on a rise on the creek, it is, more or less, equidistant from each of the two areas. It was located on land owned by Isaac King, a large landowner whose family had been the largest slave owners in the county.

The cemetery originally was one quarter acre in size, but in 1919 King agreed to increase the area to three acres and deed it to the Colored Cemetery Association, provided the area would be fenced out. The entire community joined together and in one day the men built the fence while the ladies and children provided food and refreshments.

Dated 1886, the earliest existing headstone in the cemetery marks the grave of Caroline Garett, age 65. The cemetery is still in use. Often descendants of the settlements founders, living in far away places, make a last request to be buried in the land of their forefathers. Among the most recent was Redmon Knowles of California, who was buried in 1963.

LOCATION: Located north of Hondo, Medina County, Texas, on CR 4401, 1 1/4 miles south of CR 448. (29 22.43N - 099 08.17W)

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