Pleasant Green-Culbertson Cemetery
Also known as Oats Prairie cemetery
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Pleasant Green – Culbertson cemetery is a historic African American cemetery that used to sit on an old plantation. It is located just to the north across the bayou from Hart-Singleton cemetery (white cemetery). According to news sources, a gentleman who was born a slave, saved enough when he was freed to buy 12 acres for his 12 children, which included the land the cemetery is located on. Research records indicate that Pleasant Green-Culbertson cemetery is located at on the banks of the Huntington Bayou, off Needham Road and that Oates Prairie Negro cemetery is located to the north of Hart-Singleton cemetery with family names of: Hawkins, Gamble and Culbertson. However, grave markers in Pleasant Green-Culbertson cemetery include the family names of Hawkins, Gamble and Culbertson with their death certificates showing place of burial or removal as Oates Prairie or Oats Prairie. There is also research to indicate that another name for the cemeteries could be Hunting Bayou cemetery.
Pleasant Green – Culbertson cemetery is a historic African American cemetery that used to sit on an old plantation. It is located just to the north across the bayou from Hart-Singleton cemetery (white cemetery). According to news sources, a gentleman who was born a slave, saved enough when he was freed to buy 12 acres for his 12 children, which included the land the cemetery is located on. Research records indicate that Pleasant Green-Culbertson cemetery is located at on the banks of the Huntington Bayou, off Needham Road and that Oates Prairie Negro cemetery is located to the north of Hart-Singleton cemetery with family names of: Hawkins, Gamble and Culbertson. However, grave markers in Pleasant Green-Culbertson cemetery include the family names of Hawkins, Gamble and Culbertson with their death certificates showing place of burial or removal as Oates Prairie or Oats Prairie. There is also research to indicate that another name for the cemeteries could be Hunting Bayou cemetery.
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Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials76
- Percent photographed75%
- Percent with GPS0%
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials3k+
- Percent photographed37%
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Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials8
- Percent photographed63%
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Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials2
- Percent photographed50%
- Percent with GPS0%
- Added: 3 Mar 2020
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2702049
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