Rodney Hawkins, a producer with CBS News, helped piece together his family’s history and restore a 200-year-old cemetery. The exhibit was presented at AT&T’s downtown headquarters.
Ancestry.com is one popular way to dive into family history. But Dallas journalist Rodney Hawkins says sometimes your own family can provide much more information. He has a new exhibition called "The Mount Experience" at AT&T Headquarters that traces his journey to restore an East Texas cemetery and unlock his family's history.
Rodney Hawkins has a new exhibition called 'The Mount Experience' at AT&T Headquarters that traces his journey to restore an East Texas cemetery and unlock his family's history.
Ancestry.com is one popular way to dive into family history. But Dallas journalist Rodney Hawkins says sometimes your own family can provide much more information. He has a new exhibition called "The Mount Experience" at AT&T Headquarters that traces his journey to restore an East Texas cemetery and unlock his family's history.
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What started as a simple search for family history a year ago is becoming a multi-generational journey of self-discovery.
Last year, we told you about CBS News producer Rodney Hawkins and his family s efforts to restore their ancestral cemetery in East Texas. It s one of many projects across the country aimed at preserving historic black burial sites.
Family members came from all over the United States to complete the restoration of the nearly 200-year old cemetery, Old Mount Gillion including Billy Curl, the great uncle of Hawkins.
The man he was named after a sharecropper named Bill Curl was Hawkins great-great-grandfather. When his grave was uncovered last year, it brought back some unexpected memories for Hawkins grandmother.