Volunteers lead revitalization of Fort Worth’s oldest cemetery as historic site turns 175

Sam Cantey IV, 84, remembers visiting the Pioneers Rest Cemetery for the first time while on a sixth grade field trip and feeling an instant pull to the historic place.

The cemetery stands as Fort Worth’s oldest burial ground, containing the graves of the city’s founders and some early settlers.

Cantey and his classmates spent most of the visit running across the cemetery looking through the gravestones, he said…

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