According to an interview with Richard Price (June 24, 2016) “”I lived in what is still known as the Pear Orchard. The Pear Orchard it is the area on the North side bounded by Washington Boulevard on the West side by what was then the Abattoir tour section and on the South side by Cardinal drive and on the East side by the railroad track that separated the Pear Orchard from the West part of the South end of Beaumont. And most of our doings and so forth was bounded by those, those boundaries….we knew the boundaries beyond which we would not try to go. The Northern inside of the Beaumont was off limits to us. The urban streets South end was off limits to us. And so within this compound we mostly developed our relationships with other people in what is known as the Pear Orchard community.”” He noted later in the interview that he did not know of a single non-Black family living in the neighborhood.””

Pear Orchard Cemetery is either the same as or adjacent to Blanchette Cemetery. The Texas Historical Commission notes Blanchette and Fleming as possible alternate names for Pear Orchard Cemetery.