Gunfight Traditional Cache
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An easy cache in the old Conoley Cemetery. Drive behind the church and park at the gate of the cemetery.
Alvin Edwards had been told by the Waters boys that if he showed his face on the streets of Lexington, Texas again they'd shoot him. Alvin told his family, which included a wife and a son who was not quite 3 years old, "Nobody is going to tell me where I can or can't go." As he rode into Lexington on that hot day in August 1919, Alvin was gunned down. He was my grandfather's older brother. The wife he left behind was my grandmother's older sister. A double tragedy for the family that day.
The young man who lies beside him, Roy Edwards, is his son "Copper". He died at the age of 16 after a lifetime of being "sickly" and being without a father for almost 14 years. Above Alvin lies Virginia Susan Pritchard Catchings. She is my grandmother's mother - Alvin's mother-in-law. She died just before my grandmother's 10th birthday leaving 8 kids for the man who lies next to her to raise. Robert Guy Catchings, my mother's grandfather lived near her family until his death in 1933.
The Pritchards, P.W. and Martha, who lay nearby are my Great-Grandmother's parents. The fence surrounds the graves of my Great-Great-Great Grandparents - The Johnsons.
This old cemetery holds a lot of history and a lot of tears. Respectfully look around and pay homage to these early residents of Milam County. Note the strange spellings of some of the names and the fact that there are "hidden graves" deeper in the cemetery.
Congrats to 6Shooter on completing the Texas County Challenge. I am honored that he chose this cache to log his 254th of 254 counties!
Additional Hints
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