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 one of the more poorly-documented cemeteries in the region.
There is not a great deal of online information about it, and my
primary resource claims there are only 13 graves here. I suspect
that there are rather more, but the site is in very bad condition.
It is landscaped well enough, but most headstones are either in
fragments on the ground or are too weathered to be legible. There
are stumpy rocks all over the place that seem to be the remains of
crude markers, and at least three pebble-outlined ovals where one
suspects a grave must be. At any rate, of the 11 interments for
which full information is known, dates of death range from 1889 to
1985.
The grounds are surrounded by a fence, but the gate is not
locked. You WILL have to enter the site, which is sub-optimal but
could not be avoided. When I went to deploy this cache, a volunteer
fireman from the station next door came out and sat in his truck,
staring at me for 10 minutes. I was forced to gaze meaningfully at
my phone for an extended period of time, and when I crept back into
the cemetery, I had to make the hide in a way where Snoopy
McSuspiciousson would not be able to spot me. At any rate, as
always, any refinements to the listed coordinates are
welcomed.