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.
This is a small family cemetery that seems to have little or no official documentation. There are at least eight interments here: six for the Grumbles family, and two for their friends and neighbors, the Carpenters. The dates are rather hazy, but the earliest burial appears to have been in 1886, and the last may have been in 1913.
The quarter-acre site is enclosed by a chain link fence and the gate is padlocked shut. You could, in theory, enter the plot through a narrow hole near the cache's hiding spot, but I would discourage this, and in any case it is not necessary to find the container. The grounds are very heavily overgrown and evidently receive zero maintenance. I looked for the graves around April of 2011 and couldn't spot them, and it is only after the extended drought and the onset of fall that enough of the underbrush has died back that you can see some of the markers. Near the southwest corner, you should be able to spy a low rusted wrought-iron fence, in the middle of which a large oak has grown. A headstone is just barely visible to the left of the tree (toward the Home Depot side). By the northwest corner you may be able to spy the headstone for L.C. Carpenter, and a couple of dozen feet beyond that, what appears to be a larger memorial. This MAY have been placed by Terry Grumbles in or around 2005 (see the Related Web Page link above). As always, any refinements to the listed coordinates are welcomed.