My husband's line was from Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas...many Davis' buried in the cemetery there.

My gr-grandmother, Nettie Eugenia Hightower Watson, and her infant son, Fleming Watson died in Freestone, TX. Nettie d. 1901, in Donie and Fleming, @ 18-mo old d. @ 1899 in Stewards Mill, TX. Can anyone suggest in what cemetery they may be buried?

I'm in Tarrant County. They had to enact a new county ordinance require ALL cemeteries have tall fences around them. Vandalism? No, it's just all those people who are dying to get in.

Happy Dae·

Michele,
In looking at the cemetery census for Stewards Mill Cemetery in Freestone County, I don't find Nettie and her son Fleming there but there are Watsons but no Hightowers. I am wondering if she and her son had a stone or if it was a homemade stone that so many of the cemeteries in that area had and now they've eroded to dust. If I recall correctly, Freestone County Genealogical Society wrote a pretty comprehensive cemetery book and it's at the Fairfield Library. You might try checking to see if someone at the library or the gen society can do a lookup for you.

I am looking for (and have for years) Martha Patsy Parker Cross Crenshaw and her son Daniel Crenshaw's graves. I am sure they are in Pilgrim's (unmarked?) or one of the Houston or Anderson County cemeteries, but never find them. I am also looking for her husband, unknown H J Crenshaw.

BTW I have many if not all my tombstone pics on Find a grave....Cross, Parker, Crenshaw, Wood, Strother families mostly in East Texas.

Gwen,
Thank you for suggestions. I will see what is available.
Michele

We have new neighbors moving in this week-end. They are from Minnesota. The wife said, "It will be nice to get away from the cold north, but I still think I'm going to miss having four seasons."

I said, "No problem. Texas HAS four seasons: early summer, mid-summer, late summer, and next summer."

Happy Dae·

I am interested in anything to do with Ozro Cemetary, near Maypearl. MARIEL

Hi. I just wanted to introduce myself. My RL name is Karla Lang and I'm the Special Collections Librarian at the Palestine Public Library. My special interest is in cemeteries, and me, along with a wonderful group of volunteers, are striving to photograph all the headstones in Anderson County. We're taking those pics, and adding them to a database, which will hopefully be online someday in the near future. Kaylee Korbitza is my handle in Second Life, which I discovered in April of this year. Thanks!

Kaylee,
Do you have any info on the death of Martha Patsy Parker Cross Crenshaw? She is daughter of James W Parker. Her son, daughters and neice and father are all buried at Pilgrims cemetery, but I cannot find Martha or her son Daniel J Crenshaw. Martha died between 1911-1930. Thanks!

Dichotomy2u,
I am not finding Martha Patsy Parker Cross Crenshaw in any listings I have for Pilgrim Cemetery. That's not to say they aren't out there, just that we haven't seen headstones or certificates to prove it yet. In fact, the only members of the Cross family out there that is listed is John H. Cross (b1860 - d1895) and Nihle P. Cross (b. 6/21/1907 - d. 2/14/1982) There are no Crenshaws listed at all in the entire county! I checked every spelling I could think of too. I'll do a little more digging, but from the looks of it now, I don't know if there's going to be anything at all on them. Sorry!

Hi everyone. I am seeking any of you who are cemetery headstone volunteer photographers and who have had to deal with the cemetery office staff, whether a pleasant experience or not, when trying to obtain a grave site location..please consider submitting your experience via a form, on the Cemetery & Funeral Home Reviews site.

Thank you for join this group and thank you for submitting a review, if you do so.

Sherry

I have photos of most of my family tombstones on Findagrave. Since moving to SC - most of my cemetery photos are in York Co, SC and a few in Cleveland & Lincoln Co, NC. I am finding many tombstones in a cemetery in York County SC that is a gift to genealogist. Women's tombstones with their first name and maiden name as main name and in smaller letters underneath her name, "wife of XXX" and her husbands name. Also as granite was so cheap and plentiful our here... so many babies' tombstones with both parents name.

Luckey is a circa 1830's Rowan County, N.C., family name (possibly of German origins?). Sometimes if stuck, stuck; especially with an uncommon family last name; you find that name earlier, elsewhere; and attempt to work backwards. It especially helps if your's also had some unusually first names too, like Shadrack Luckey, Hardy Luckey, etc. Great grandfather was Biloxi harbormaster Capt. Harry Copp James, born New Orleans, the great grandson of New Orleans lawyer David Copp, Jr., Esq., murdered `1803/5 In a N.O. gambling house. I could not find earlier Southern Copps to connected him too. I'd heard of 1640's Copp's Hill, Boston, Mass. I found a New England Copp researcher--she knew the whole story. A graduate of Philips Exeter Academy, he wed a 15 years old Mary "Polly" Watson at the Epis. Church, Portsmouth, N.H., and the Dover town history book says they fled in the night to escape his gambling depts. A Missisippi descendant, was impeached in U.S. Congress concerning gambling debts and alledged questionable legal decisions. His legislator father, LtCol David Copp, Sr., fought at Bunker Hill; but I most admire him as a Protestant legislator fighting the disinfrangement of Catholics. The father of Sr's wife, Patriot legislator, one-arm Maj. Barnabus Palmer, Sr's wife, descended Gov. Winthrop once, and Gov. Dudley twice. Blacks who can get back to only just before the Civil War, have it harder. Often they need to find the distant origins of their white owners family. For example: my 1805, Ft. St. Stephens, Ala., Thomas Malone, Sr., U.S. Land Office Agent, U.S. Magistrate, Asst. Indian Agent, in an Alabama biography book (Pickards?) is recorded as bringing his slaves with him from Raleigh, N.C.; earlier he had lived Malone's Mill Creek, Warren Co., N.C., the son of Patriot Ens. Wood Malone. Possibly his Mobile, Ala., slaves lineages could be traced back to Warren Co., N.C.?

I descend Mobile and Galveston cotton broker, Capt. Edward Malone, Sr., CSA, 1821-1867, Co. F, 24th Ala., Inf., twice wounded. Earlier he was a Lt. in the Rio Grande Volunteer Light Artillery (Galveston Battery, Van Buren's Battery) under his brother-in-law, Maj. Henry van Buren, CSA. It used guns from the defunct Republic of Texas Navy, and helped capture the "Star in the West". Malone never fully recovered from his war wounds and 1867 was buried Trinity Epis. Church, Galvesrton, near a window. I suppose he buried traditionally six-feet deep, if the then low island permitted that depth? After the Galveston hurricane, I understand eight more feet were added to the island and presumedly, Trinty Church raised back to the higher ground level? Seemingly then, Capt. Malone is now buried 14 feet deep at Galveston's Trinity Epis. Church? That's a question, not a statement. Jim Miller, Southport, N.C.

For anyone who might be interested, I have a good friend in Brazoria County who would probably be willing to take cemetery photos if needed. He is a great photographer and will respect all site that he visits.

From my email:

✔ The Hardin County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting, Saturday, April 10th, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at the HCGS Library located at 220 W. Main in Kountze, TX. Guest speaker will be Ms. Nancy Brandi from the Liberty Genealogy Society. Her topic will be the "ABC's of Breaking Down Your Brickwall." We will have lunch immediately following the meeting, so bring you favorite dish to share.

Hope to see you there.

Donna Blaisdell
HCGS Secretary
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Many Thanks to Russell for sending me the story about Texas court aims to protect vanishing court records. This story was part of the TX-Cemetery-Preservation list on Rootsweb List serve so I have added their feed to the group.

BEGINNING APRIL 17th 2010

Houston Library System announces new (cutback) hours. If you are going to the Clayton Genealogical Library, Houston Metropolitan Research Center or The African American Library at Gregory School, the NEW hours are

Mon -Tues -Thurs: 10am to 6pm
Wed: 10am to 8pm
Friday -Sun: CLOSED
Sat: 10am to 5pm

Just posted a review of the Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in El Paso.

http://www.texashistoryhunter.net/cfhr/texas.html

Tomball, Harris Co., TX Zion Luthern Cemetery, now an official Historic Cemtery

http://www.tribunenews.com/news/community-briefs/1186-zion-cemetery...

Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery has been named an official State of Texas Historic Cemetery by members of the Harris County Historical Commission.

To celebrate this designation, the Cemetery will be the site of a dedication ceremony on June 27 at 2 p.m. to mark the unveiling of the Historical Cemetery Marker. The cemetery is located at 25800 Zion Lutheran Cemetery Road. The dedication of the Official Historic State Cemetery Marker will be conducted by members of the Harris County Historical Commission.

According to Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery Committee Chairman Charles Bogs, in order to receive official recognition as a historic cemetery, several months worth of research, conversations with state representatives and application processes were required.

Bogs explained that the cemetery was founded by the Mueller family in 1873 and was later used by the Stuebner family, who were neighbors of the Muellers. The cemetery was conveyed to Zion Lutheran Church in 1907 and is still in use today.

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Holliday, Archer Co., TX
Info on this little town from the Handbook of Texas Online

Holliday Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 716, Holliday, Texas 76366

The cemetery has a wonderful website and they have their headstones online in the Photo Gallery

Just wanted to let others know that I have not been able to get out and about since I lost my car last year. If anyone is getting to visit, discover and photograph the cemeteries or have questions, please post so we can share!!

Are there any plats or origina pre-1900 storm records for burials in the Old City Cemetery in Galveston ? I've seen "Records of Internments Vol. 1" and would like to see Volume 2. Mary Smith died Jan 25, 1866 and was buried the next day. Cause of death was pneumonia. She was from Boston. I'm hoping there is a death record that gives her date of birth. Her age was given as 67. As I undestand it Old City was filled in ater 1900 storm so Mary's grave is probably forever lost.

Do orders for exhuming a body in Galveston exist ? Annie Augusta Stines died in Galveston in Dec 1875. I'm not sure where she was buried but I suspect it was Old City as the family had a burial there already. We think Annie was exhumed when the family moved to Chambers County in 1878-79. I'm almost positive she was re-buried in the family cemetery on Double Bayou. No marked headstone but there is a slab indicating a grave.