Humble Negro Cemetery

At that time, by vote of the City Council, racial segregation was invoked to make the town "lily white".

The black population was forced to relocate their families as well as the graves of their dead to another location, outside the city limits.

After receiving clearance from the City of Humble and the Texas Department of Transportation, Grace Church spent many thousands of dollars putting in a road, clearing hundreds of trees, and working with local historians to restore the cemetery.

To honor the war veterans who are buried there, the church also installed a flagpole and U.S. flag station.

While hoping to return the cemetery to the loved ones of the deceased, the church committed to cover all maintenance and upkeep.

Gravestone of a boy named Willie Simms who died September 11, 1921, at the age of 11, and was buried in the Humble Negro Cemetery, otherwise known as the "Pipe Yard Cemetery"