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GRAVE THOUGHTSHeroism,
romance, betrayal, unrequited love, humor and famous last words.
Pathos, bathos
and lassos.
Think of it as a Texas Spoon River.
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Don't
Keep My Grave by David Knape 10-1-12Three
Tragedies by Bob Bowman 8-19-12
An intriguing family
mystery spanning more than 135 years is told by three tombstones lying behind
a rusting iron fence in a small East Texas cemetery. |
| | Rope
Walker by Dianne West Short 6-17-12
In the old Hebrew
Cemetery in Corsicana, Texas is a headstone with only two words on it, “Rope Walker.”
Almost nothing is known of the man in the grave except the manner of his death...Mystery
Tombstone 6-15-12 |
Old
Emporia by Bob Bowman
7-2-12
It is on one of the most enduring mysteries in East Texas. In
the early 1900s, an explosion and fire struck the old Emporia sawmill south of
what is now Diboll. More than thirty sawmill workers, most of them black, are
believed to have perished in the conflagration. Burned beyond recognition, the
men were reportedly buried in a mass grave somewhere on the Emporia town site,
now a part of Diboll, with no tombstones to mark their final resting place. One
Man Two Graves by Mike Cox 5-3-12
Anyone wishing
to visit the final resting place of John E. McGuire is going to have to travel
to two different cemeteries... Ben
Thompson's Tombstone by C. F. Eckhardt 3-10-12
When
the old Iron Front Saloon on Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas was torn down in
the 1920s, a most peculiar object was found in the basement. It was a fine marble
tombstone—but there was no inscription on it... Billy
the Kid's Tombstoneby C.
F. Eckhardt 1-21-12The
Boy With Two Tombstones Or Iraan's “Little Boy Lost.” by Mike Cox
3-30-11
"Ellis…Son of [missing] Born March 3, 1870 – Died Nov.
28, 1872." Not only was it odd to discover a tombstone in a flower bed, the
dates it bore presented a mystery on top of a mystery...Is
Quantrill buried in East Texas? by Bob Bowman 2-28-11
One
of the most intriguing legends in East Texas claims that William Clarke Quantrill,
the guerrilla leader from the Civil War and the mentor of the Younger and James
brothers, is buried in Angelina County.
Old Rangers
and Sam Houston's Grave by Mike Cox 1-13-11
The old
Texas Rangers who gathered in Austin for a reunion in the early fall of 1897 surely
figured they had fought their last fight. After all, they had battled and survived
Mexican soldiers, Comanches and outlaws. But that’s before they heard what some
folks in Tennessee were up to...Graves
of the Famous by Bob Bowman 8-22-10
A reader called
a few days ago, asking where John Wesley Hardin, one of East Texas’ most famous
outlaws, was buried. His call brought up the question of where other famous people
are buried in Texas and elsewhere... Johnson
Island by Mike Cox 6-17-10
National Historic Site
The
graveyard, accessible today only by boat or toll bridge, is all that’s left of
the Johnson Island Military Prison, a Lake Erie facility that held an average
of 2,500 Confederate prisoners – all of them officers – throughout the Civil War...
Finding
the Polancio Grave Marker by Barclay Gibson 3-22-10
"Back
in the 1870s a stage was attacked by Indians and a man, Jose Maria Palancios,
was killed. He was buried right where he fell, at the base of the Peak and a crude
rock slab had the information scratched on it."The
Wrong Grave by Bob Bowman
In East Texas, where John Alexander Greer spent
his life, there is the lingering question if his bones really lie beneath the
Texas State Cemetery tombstone... Go
see your old people, write it down by Delbert Trew
For reasons not understood
yet, the past month has provided several incidents in which cemeteries were included.
As I review the various happenings it gets a bit spooky at best.Ranger
Cemeteries by Mike Cox
Except for the occasional thunder-like sound of
a jet taking off or landing at Austin’s Bergstrom International Airport, the small
cemetery could be out in the middle of nowhere...Samuel
Everitt Rogers' Grave
Samuel Everitt Rogers, killed and scalped by Comanche
Indians on May 03, 1863, in Carlton, Texas. Monumental
Texas: The Stolz Name Is Written In Stone by H.H.Howze
“The faults of our
brothers we write upon the sands. Their virtues on the tablets of love and memory.”
Humor
in graveyards by Bob Bowman
"Traveling across East Texas, graveyard
visitors are often rewarded with... humorous and poignant tombstone inscriptions."
Ghost
of Nicaragua Smith Still Haunts Graveyard by W. T. Block, Jr.
If you should
ever pass near the Old City Cemetery in Galveston on the night of January 8th,
you might hear a screaming voice out of the ocean mists...The
Legend of Ann Eliza's Grave
" 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
"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 CemeteryIn
search of Robert Elgin: Houston's Glenwood CemeteryDiamond
Bessie: The Trial of the (19th) CenturyMonument
HillWends
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 SoldiersMass
Grave in Gonzales ( 1905 ) by Murray Montgomery
Still a mystery today.
What
Ate Albert Grape? And why is his Tombstone in Gonzales? |
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