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🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:06.0 | This story contains adult content and language. |
| 0:09.0 | Listener discretion is advised. So I guess this is an old grave site. Do you think you can take Granny's arm so we can walk out into it a little bit? |
| 0:30.0 | There's a lot of weeds here. Why do you think it's important to be here and for future generations to come to these places? |
| 0:39.0 | This is the oldest cemetery in the city. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, I like the idea of walking through here and wondering who these people were and what |
| 0:48.3 | they saw and would they be happy to know that somebody is here looking at their grave and thinking about them? |
| 0:57.0 | My mother, Lynn LeFever and I, are at the Oakwood Cemetery, the oldest city-owned cemetery in Austin, Texas. |
| 1:05.0 | It's full of some of the city's most important people from centuries ago. |
| 1:10.0 | Beneath the earth are congressmen, governors, and athletes, local legends in Austin's history. |
| 1:17.0 | But my mom and I are in a different section, the section where the city's people of color were often buried in the 1800s. |
| 1:27.4 | So this is what they considered to be the quote-unquote colored section, which was anyone of color, |
| 1:32.1 | including people who were black. |
| 1:35.8 | This is also somewhere in here where some of the victims of the Servant Girl Annihilator are are but I don't know if there are even markers. |
| 1:47.0 | Do you see these big spaces, these open spaces? |
| 1:49.6 | They said that this section of the cemetery is completely filled but there are so many spaces that have no markers, you know, for different reasons. |
| 2:00.0 | This is where all the black victims of the Servant Girl Annihilator are buried. |
| 2:06.2 | It wasn't difficult for my mother and I to locate Sue Hancock, one of his white victims, |
| 2:12.0 | but it's been really hard to find the six black victims really hard. |
| 2:17.0 | So what are you, what's your impression, mom, of all this? |
| 2:21.0 | Um, the headstones are impressive. |
| 2:25.0 | They're beautiful, beautiful trees here. |
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