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Photographer: Randal B. Gilbert
Taken: December 26, 2015
Caption: Hubbard Family Cemetery Slave Graves
Additional Description: Some of the carefully marked graves of the Hubbard slaves. There are many more in this cemetery.
Both of the brothers-in-law of the elder Hubbard, J.S. Bledsoe and Milton Carter, were Baptist ministers and lived down the road from this location. In about 1854 they founded the Carmel Baptist Church about three miles north. The church allowed slaves to be members and their names are listed in the church minute books. In 1865 Bledsoe purchased land and built the new freedmen their own church, which is named Duck Creek Baptist Church. It still exists as a church.
Submitted: December 26, 2015, by Randal B. Gilbert of Tyler, Texas.
Database Locator Identification Number: p342803
File Size: 0.737 Megabytes

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