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PILOT POINT, Texas - Denton County Commissioners voted last week to begin restoring a forgotten cemetery believed to be the resting place of dozens of slaves.

"They were people who didn't have freedom for a long...many of them never had freedom and then this is their final resting place. This is the place where they went after living a horrendous life and then this is what it looks like."

Saint John's Cemetery, also known as the Old Slave Cemetery, is just South of Pilot Point on a private residential road.

Denton's NAACP Chairman, Willie Hudspeth says he felt heartbroken when he first laid eyes on it...And knew it was up to him to find a way to get commissioners to help clean it up.

"First I found out that the county has money to do this and I was angry at them for not doing it in the first place. I started really ragging on them because they hadn't taken care of the cemetery."

Hudspeth says he went to meetings every Tuesday to remind commissioners about the cemetery and one day his persistence made a change.