Texas Spirit Quest #19 St. Josephs Cemetery Traditional Cache
Texas Spirit Quest #19 St. Josephs Cemetery
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Another in the
Texas Spirit Quest
Cache Series
The Texas Spirit Quest
is a series of Caches
placed by many individuals, near cemeteries and historic
sites in hopes of paying respect to the many pioneer
ancestors that have ‘walked’ before us.
There are hundreds of cemeteries in the rural communities
across
Texas. This series will introduce you to many of them. The
cache
pages will provide a virtual history tour of the cemeteries,
tombstones and local lore.
With the purpose of founding a monastery and a German Catholic
Colony, Carmelite Monks, in 1881, began the first catholic church
between Fort Worth and El Paso. The adobe and brick monastery was
completed in 1884, and St. Joseph's Church in 1885. Sisters of
divine providence opened a short-lived school, 1887; reopened,
1894, by Sisters of Mercy. In 1897, Carmelite Monks disbanded and
sold property to Sisters of Mercy, who operated a convent and
academy until abandonment after a tornado severly damaged the
facilities on June 11, 1938.
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dekoning for First to
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