San Antonio College Library

On the farm of Ruth and Charles Standard is a tiny cemetery of mostly uncut rock and stones. It is a remnant from the days when their land was a small patch of a great tobacco plantation. Residing there, from generations long past, are slaves who were laid to rest under the ground they once worked. One marker tells a far different story. It is the marker of an infant that reads, "Kate. Born and died the same week. Budded on earth to blossom in heaven"....