Restoring New Trinity Cemetery: Honoring 500+ Buffalo Soldiers in Tarrant County

Discovery of Forgotten Graves

• 📌 Beneath overgrown grass at New Trinity Cemetery in Tarrant County, headstones of over 500 Black veterans were uncovered.
• 💔 The cemetery, described as a "piece of history lost," was in a state that was "upsetting" to discover.

Buffalo Soldiers and Their Service

• 🎖️ The discovered headstones belong to more than 500 Buffalo Soldiers, Black men and women who served in wars and had been waiting to be remembered.
• 🛠️ The American Legion and the Tarrant County Sheriff's Labor Detail Unit collaborated to clear each grave site.
• 🤝 Inmates from the Sheriff's Labor Detail Unit participated in the restoration, becoming "part of history now."

Honoring Florence Marie Rolls

• 🌟 Among the headstones, Florence Marie Rolls was highlighted. She was a member of the 68th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-female, predominantly Black unit deployed in World War II.
• ✊ Her story, like many others, was hidden until this restoration, aiming to give them the honor they never received in life.

Resurrection of Memory

• ✨ The rededication of New Trinity Cemetery is described as a "resurrection of memory" for the county's first Black cemetery.
• 💖 This Veterans Day event marks a place long forgotten, now reborn in reverence in Tarrant County.