Nonprofit asks Houston to help restore Evergreen Cemetery in Fifth Ward

Lisa Jenkins, representing a nonprofit that stewards Evergreen Cemetery in the Fifth Ward, told the committee volunteers cannot shoulder all of the restoration work and asked the city to provide tangible municipal support such as directing public works crews, leveraging community development block grants or other in-kind assistance. Jenkins said Evergreen is one of Houston's oldest cemeteries, has a historic designation received in 2009, and that volunteers recently reinterred 39 remains and will unveil a monument for Slavery Remembrance Day.