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Thursday, June 4, 2026 at 9:20 AM

Working toward resolution

Working toward resolution
Willie Hudspeth holds a single rose as Jessica Luther Rummel reads the names of the known graves on Saturday morning. Kisca Crowe/The Post-Signal

Property owners, families connected to cemetery discuss access solutions

Families tied to the freedman community from the Denton and Pilot Point area took the chance to visit the graves of their ancestors on Saturday morning at the St. John's Cemetery.

The site is surrounded by private land off of Hub Clark Road, and access to the cemetery has been a point of contention between property owners and the descendants of the people interred there.

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