The Friends and Relatives of Greenleaf (FROG) will sponsor a workday at the Greenleaf Cemetery on Highway 377 South, on Saturday, November 14th from 9:00 am til 3:00 pm.
Volunteers will participating in a variety of activities:
- leveling gravestones
- planting bulbs for spring
- cleaning flower beds
- speading Fire Ant bait
- other needed activities
Greenleaf Cemetery was first established in 1878, when Greenleaf Fisk gave land for a city cemetery. Over the years, more that 22,000 persons have been buried at the cemetery. Several historic persons are buried at the cemetery. Noah Byers, a blacksmith who owned the blacksmith shop where the Declaration of Independence was signed in Washington on the Brazos, Texas, is one of those persons.
Other notable persons include author, Robert Howard, the first female optometrist in the US, Molly Armstrong, and Rufus F. Hardin, former slave and the first teacher of the school which now bears his name.
Volunteers are asked to come at 9:00 and to bring a sack lunch. The Dr. Pepper Bottling Company will be furnishing drinks for the workday. Donations of daffodil bulbs,tulip bulbs, day lilies or other easy to maintain flowers will be greatly appreciated. The cemetery is also looking for donations of the professional fire ant bait, Extinquish.
Monetary donations to the cemetery and the workday are also gratefully accepted. For more information call Connie Wyatt at 646-7596 or Patti Jordan at 646-6216.
