Displaced Markers

LAVACA COUNTY, TEXAS

1. All four Ashby names are on one marker that was moved from a Kallus farm (possibly owned by Joe Kallus) above either Mossy Grove or Ezzell to the Hallettsville Memorial Park. According to her marker, Mary Garnet Ashby was born in Woodford County, Kentucky to Benjamin and Mary Wolfork Garnet and was married to John M. Ashby on March 1, 1810. She came to Texas April 7, 1831. Information on original location provided by Brenda Fisseler.

2. Brenda Fisseler at the Friench Simpson Library in Hallettsville provided this information.

3. Tom Bonorden provided information regarding the Bonorden markers that were removed to Hallettsville. If you have a photograph of the markers while still at Pagel Settlement, please contact him.

4. Regena Williamson states that Elizabeth Bullard's marker was moved to the Cheatham Cemetery in Colorado County by her brother. Her parents were Dora Brisco and Willard Bullard.

5. Gay Bethel states that the marker was taken up by one of Nathaniel Cox's relatives for safe keeping after his wife's marker couldn't be found in the cemetery, which was in poor condition at the time. Nathaniel Cox's marker was broken and half buried. Mrs. Bethel was told by Cox's late granddaughter, Rebecca Youngkin, that it was taken to "the cemetery at Yoakum." Another person thinks it may be in Cuero, DeWitt County. Later Mrs. Cox's marker was found buried just beneath the soil's surface and it remains in the Bennett Cemetery. She was Leanna Permelia Bennett Cox, 30 Jan 1835 - 5 Aug 1870.

6. Sammy Tise's Lavaca County, Texas Cemeteries, Volume II, lists a marker for this person in the Hallettsville City Cemetery. The date of death is before that cemetery was established in 1890.

7. The Hallettsville Memorial Park has a lot of markers lying in slabs of concrete. It's believed that many of these were moved into Hallettsville from rural burial grounds in an attempt to save them. Please contact Regena if you have information about where these markers originally stood. Photo of Frances Branon Force marker from June Draper. Click on it for a larger view.

8. Sammy Tise's Lavaca County, Texas Cemeteries indicates there are markers in two cemeteries. It's unclear which marker was placed first.

9. Dorothy Albrecht reported that the Tkac markers were moved from Lavaca County to the Weimar Odd Fellows Cemetery in Colorado County. Janie Bucek provided information that the markers were moved from the Velehrad Cemetery. The bases for Anezka and Julie's markers are still at Velehrad.

10. Texas State Cemetery website: http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/database.htm

11. Sammy Tise listed Frantiska Hanzlik in St. Anthony's Cemetery neary Breslau in his December 6, 1980 survey and stated hers was the oldest marker there; however, she is now listed by the Victoria Diocese as being buried in St. Mary's Cemetery.

12. Listed on E. F. Smith inventory of Pagel Settlement Cemetery made before 1967. "Her end was peace." This was Katherine Molik Miller Byer or Beyer, mother of Martha Miller Bonorden. She was first married to F. Miller and second to Fritz Beyer. More than likely, she still lies buried at Pagel Settlement. Please contact Regena if you have information about this person or where this marker originally stood.

13. Information from Janet Saylor. See Knox Cemetery near Sweet Home for more details.

14. Lucian C. Whitehead, son of Henry S. and Elizabeth Veal Whitehead, was born in Lavaca County. He drowned in the Lavaca River when he was twenty-five and was buried in Lavaca County. His family had moved to the Liberty Hill area in Williamson County in 1873 where his sister, Minnie, died in September 1877 and was buried on their property. Their father reinterred Lucian's body in the same burial ground, now known as the Whitehead Cemetery. Information from Penny Odom. Click on photo for larger view.

15. His obituary in the Weimar Mercury says Taft Overstreet Selph was interred at the Geiger Cemetery, yet his marker is located at the Cheatham Cemetery in Colorado County. Was he reinterred?

16. 18 May 1904 Shiner Gazette newspaper article

Related Links

Bennett Cemetery
Bock Cemetery
Bunjs Cemetery
Cheetham Cemetery, Colorado County, TX
Hallettsville City Cemetery
Hallettsville Memorial Park
Pagel Settlement Cemetery
Shiner City Cemetery
Vsetin Cemetery
Weimar Odd Fellows Cemetery, Colorado County, TX
Willow Creek Cemetery