![100-year-old tombstone of Rueben Lewis with surrounded vegetation overgrowth](https://i2.wp.com/abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230617_TOMBSTONE-CLEANING-_AM_02-scaled.jpg?ssl=1)
![Fort Bend County Precinct 4 Commissioner Dexter L. McCoy leads a group of volunteers through cleared land](https://i2.wp.com/abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230617_TOMBSTONE-CLEANING-_AM_01-scaled.jpg?ssl=1)
![Debra McGaughey runs her fingers over the engraving on a tombstone](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230617_TOMBSTONE-CLEANING-_AM_03-scaled.jpg?ssl=1)
![Beverly Harris, 71, clears branches in a historic cemetery](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230617_TOMBSTONE-CLEANING-_AM_04-scaled.jpg?ssl=1)
![Volunteers clean brush and overgrowth around historic gravesites of former enslaved people outside of Kendleton, TX for Juneteenth](https://i2.wp.com/abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230617_TOMBSTONE-CLEANING-_AM_05-scaled.jpg?ssl=1)
![Volunteer Rachel Conner reads a tribute on a tombstone](https://i2.wp.com/abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230617_TOMBSTONE-CLEANING-_AM_06-scaled.jpg?ssl=1)
![Gina Torry and James Hudson clear overgrowth around the tombstones of a family buried outside of Kendleton, TX](https://i1.wp.com/abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230617_TOMBSTONE-CLEANING-_AM_07-scaled.jpg?ssl=1)
![A 100-year-old tombstone of Annis Guess](https://i1.wp.com/abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230617_TOMBSTONE-CLEANING-_AM_08-scaled.jpg?ssl=1)
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![Fort Bend County Precinct 4 Commissioner Dexter L. McCoy during Juneteenth event](https://i2.wp.com/abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230617_TOMBSTONE-CLEANING-_AM_10-scaled.jpg?ssl=1)
![Painted sign directs people toward a grave site](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230617_TOMBSTONE-CLEANING-_AM_11-scaled.jpg?ssl=1)
Volunteers spent Saturday morning cleaning up the neglected grave sites of at least 20 former enslaved people that were discovered in Fort Bend County last year. Independent photographer Annie Mulligan documented the group’s efforts over Juneteenth weekend.