Beyond a thick tree line in Mobile is Saint Austin Cemetery. With no proper entrance and trees, trash and lots of debris covering the 9-acre plot, locals are teaming up to clean up the area.
“There are people that come up here but this is as far as they can go,” said Eddie Irby, President and Founder of the 92nd Infantry division of Buffalo Soldiers of World War II.
The land stretches from Osage Street to South Craft Highway off of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. As for how the cemetery ended up like this…“God, that’s something that we’re trying to figure out,” said Irby, who’s in charge of cleanup efforts. “In fact, that’s where I found my father’s grave back there.”
“The same type of people buried here is like buried at Oaklawn – civil rights leaders Tuskegee Airmen, Buffalo Soldiers, the whole nine yards,” said Irby.“We’re gonna go through and remove all the small underbrush, take down these smaller trees, remove all the debris that’s back through here .. and then do a privacy fence down each way,” said Wheeler. “So, it’s safe for everybody to be able to access the property towards the back where the headstones are.
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