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GRAVE THOUGHTS

Heroism, romance, betrayal, unrequited love, humor and famous last words.

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Table of Contents

Humor in graveyards by Bob Bowman Feature 5-26-08
"Traveling across East Texas, graveyard visitors are often rewarded with... humorous and poignant tombstone inscriptions."

Ghost of Nicaragua Smith Still Haunts Graveyard Feature

The Legend of Ann Eliza's Grave Feature
" It soon became a byword among the Sabine River boatmen that no other grave ever received more attention than that of Ann Eliza Pavell."

Fairmount Cemetery by Bob Bowman Feature
"Cemeteries are not just resting places for the dearly departed; they are also repositories of a community’s history--from its beginning to the present. Such is Fairmount Cemetery, a well-kept graveyard nestled among the pines and oaks of southeastern Sabine County, near the Texas-Louisiana border."

Texas War Casualties by John Troesser
Delhi, Smithville and Praha. Stone markers and chapels quietly reveal where America gets its soldiers.

Menard Grave by Mike Cox
A few folks knew of a solitary tombstone surrounded by a fence in a live oak mott east of Menard off what locals call River Road (FM 2092)...

Sarah by Mike Cox
If Sarah is buried in Bosque County, her tombstone either has been lost or the devoted genealogists and grassroots historians who have recorded most of the inscriptions in the county's 126 cemeteries somehow have missed her. She needs to be found and a historical marker placed at her grave.

"Ghosts in the Graveyard, Texas Cemetery Tales" by Olyve Hallmark Abbott. A book review

Private and Corporal York: Lee County Cousins killed in the Great War. Giddings City Cemetery

Bill Longley Does Not Get Along Well With Others. A Visit to the Giddings City Cemetery

In search of Robert Elgin: Houston's Glenwood Cemetery

Diamond Bessie: The Trial of the (19th) Century

Monument Hill

Wends in Texas - The Brides Wore Black: A look at Texas' most unique immigrant group

The Double Hanging at Bellville in 1896

The Graves of the 10th Cavalry Soldiers

Mass Grave in Gonzales ( 1905 ) - Still a mystery today.
From Murray Montgomery's "Times Past" column

What Ate Albert Grape? And why is his Tombstone in Gonzales?

See Also:
Texas Cemeteries
Small Town Sagas
Texas Ghosts