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.
Also known as the Whitley-Yoes Cemetery, this site is to be found just a hundred feet or so past the fence near which the cache has been deployed, out in the open in the middle of the field. Depending on the state of the crops, it will be more visible at some times of the year than others. (As of the time of the placement of the cache, the headstones can be discerned without too much effort.) There are four interments here, ranging from 1865 to 1899, with two members of the Yoes family and two Whitleys. The latter are perhaps related to the Whiteleys who have a small cemetery some ways off to the west (see TSQ #93). Note that quite close at hand to the east here is the Whitley-Lunsford Cemetery, with 10 interments dating from 1876 to 1898. I made a tentative cache placement there (unpublished at N 30 38.473 / W 97 31.218) but thought better of it--my sources do not state that the road there is a private one nor that access is restricted, and they are usually pretty good about warning about such things, but I didn't like the looks of the setup. In any event, currently that cemetery is completely overgrown and all you can see is the fence, next to a cluster of creepily-abandoned buildings. Also, in trudging about there, I emerged festooned with eleventy-hundred burrs, stickers, and seed pods, which left me disgruntled.
As always, any refinements to the listed coordinates are welcomed.