RICHMOND, Texas – A Fort Bend County woman who spends her free time cleaning headstones at a historic Black cemetery in Richmond says the crumbling dirt road leading to the grounds is making it difficult and dangerous for families to visit and pay their respects.

Myra Lowrie, who calls herself the “cemetery lady,” reached out to 2 Helps You after she said she got the runaround trying to figure out who is responsible for the private road’s maintenance.

“There’s potholes, large pothole,” Lowrie said.

The road leads to Pleasant Green Cemetery, a graveyard with deep roots in the region’s Black history. The site was founded in 1868, with records indicating some of the earliest burials took place in the early 1800s. Some of those graves are unmarked.

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