MOSIER VALLEY COMMUNITY CEMETERY

FOUNDED: 1865

ADDITONAL NAMES: Moses Valley, Moshier Valley

AFFILIATION(S): None

HISTORY:

What was at one time the Lee Family farm is a 4 acres tract of land donated to the Mosier Valley community to the now freed slaves. The Lee Family didn't have enough slaves to be called a plantation. So the farm where over 50 slaves worked, the Family donated the land after they received the word in Texas that slavery had been abolished.

The community had come together to this high spot in the county after so many freed slaves had lost their land due to flooding. Many of them from the Mosier Plantation. The community remained the oldest black community in the state up until the 90s. Today most of the land has become encroached with industrial. The last stronghold is the community cemetery that only allow descendants through 4 generations to be buried there.

BCN Contact Information:

Benny Tucker

Anobletucker@gmail.com