Wait ... the Underground Railroad ran across the Rio Grande? A lost story surfaces.
The cemetery stands in the middle of a field, squared in by a chain-link fence. Sofia Bravo says her father installed it years ago to keep vandals out and history in.
Ms. Bravo was raised along the U.S.-Mexico border in Hidalgo County, Texas. Not until adulthood did she learn the lore of ancestors whose graves, likely here, face the broad sky. Before emancipation, historians say, her Webber family relatives helped enslaved people reach freedom in Mexico.
“I want other Americans to understand what really happened,” says Ms. Bravo, caretaker of the cemetery overseen by her family’s nonprofit. She didn’t learn this history in school, she says.
“I’m glad that now
