City resumes upkeep of historic West Dallas cemetery of European colonists

I am so happy to see that someone will be taking care of this cemetery. This is an important historic site for Dallas. Bart and I hunted the site down several months ago and all it is was a mass of overgrown weeds and trees in a chain link enclosure. You couldn't even get to it.

The esteemed visitor arrived to the riotous sounds of mowers and trimmers.
Pierre Grandjouan, Houston-based consul general of France, had come to see La Reunion Cemetery in West Dallas – to check out the last remnant of a long-gone colony of French, Swiss and Belgian settlers.
A crew from the city's Park and Recreation Department was there on another mission – to resume upkeep of the historic burial ground.
After months, if not years, of uncertainty and neglect, Dave Strueber, director of the department's western operations, decided last week that the city would resume care of the cemetery.
"We will take it under our wing and maintain it the way it should be," he said.
Strueber's decision brings some oversight to property that had been left to nature's ways and earlier last week was overrun with high grass, weeds and litter.
The grounds crew groomed away Thursday as Grandjouan, in a striped blue suit, strolled the sacred site with Frances James, a local cemetery historian and watchdog, and Chris Thevenet, a student of La Reunion history and descendant of a colonist.
The consul had read about the settlement and begun studying its history. He wanted to see the area, and the final resting place for colony settlers seemed like a good place to start.
"This is Reverchon," said James, pointing out the stone marker for Julien Reverchon (eponym of the Dallas park) and his wife, Marie. "This is Michel," she continued as they walked past their son's burial site.
The group paused here and there, in the shade and sunlight, to look at tombstones, some lying on the ground.
"When you look at where Dallas came from, it's a very important thing," the consul said of the colony that took shallow root across the Trinity River from the fledgling town in 1855.
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