Council approved a contract of nearly $10,000 to help with restoration efforts for the...
Photos by Jim MagillFollowing decades of stop-and-start preservation efforts, the city of Humble and the James Tull Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution have joined forces to restore the Civil War-era Old Humble Cemetery, final resting place of some of the area’s early pioneers and most prominent citizens.
“It alternates between these periods when the community would come in and clean it up, then it would get run down, then they would clean it up again and it would get run down again,” said Meaux, an instructional assessment applications developer/analyst for Humble ISD.
“In terms of projects, we are looking at leveling out the entirety of the cemetery, improving the walk-way/path and performing maintenance on some of the older decorative fencing surrounding some of the plots,” he said. Over the past several years the DAR’s efforts to reset the headstones have been hampered by weather delays and by the shutdowns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, the volunteers have managed to reset about 25 headstones, Grubbs said.
Others buried in the cemetery include a wide range of colorful characters, illustrating the city’s past as a frontier town and later an oilfield boom town at the turn of the 20th century. Those known to be resting there include merchants, blacksmiths and roughnecks. The cemetery also serves as the final resting place for a number of veterans, who served in the nation’s battles from the Civil War through the Vietnam War.
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