This seems like irrefutable evidence:
1) 1906 James McVey purchased .5 acres next to the nw corner of the 5-acre Manor Cemetery which land was gifted to the City by Mr. Manor's surviving wife, but it was dedicated in 1871. Manor died in 1881. McVey's Deed as Registered for "a cemetery lot" in the Travis County Courthouse follows.
2) McVey was paid as a Sexton (cemetery caretaker) $1.
3) Rectangular patches of lilies are almost certainly black persons' graves. It's a common burial practice. Depressions from settling dirt and scratched stones can be markers, too. During the Spanish Flu, they could barely keep up. Lots of graves had simple wooden crosses. The fires of 1920 and 1931 wiped out most of those. Nora Sanchez is our current Sexton and works part-time for City of Manor. As Mayor, Robert will approve the City spending up to $10,000 for GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) Equipment and train staff and 6-8+ community members. Parks Spring Cemetery will have access to it.
Ruth Taylor Biscoe and I filed a police report. This cleanup was an illegal "Desecration of a Cemetery." How many hidden markers were scraped away with a front-end loader and put in a dump truck to be hauled away. The Manor PD did their usual thorough divestigation. Ruth's mother is Maud Taylor.
