Howdy TXBELL Listers.. Randy and Gena Traylor have provided some more-detailed directions for finding Rock Hollow Cemetery, as shown below. I think it's terrific they've shared that info, which will help greatly with updating that cemetery. It will also help the BCHC folks (Joe and Dorothy Button), who are the BCHC unofficial cemetery database developers. (I think Joe was estimating at one time there were between 30,000 and 50,000 burials in Bell County, and I think many are now lost or otherwise unaccounted for, because the burial sites were not originally well-indexed.... ). We'll get the TRAYLOR name change in with the next update of that cemetery, to show TRAYLER. Those of you submitting biographies and obituaries to the Bios and Obits Boards at the TXBELL web page are also helping the cemetery locating process. Sometimes by finding names in a cemetery, by an on-the-ground visit, that is otherwise not clearly identified (perhaps on a map or by vague directions), we can deduce the cemetery name because that's the cemetery list in which the names appear. Also, your information is helping to clarify some points about cemetery names in the county. I've found what I was calling Czech National (on a USGS map shown immediately south of Seaton Cemetery) is the one just SW of Holland. That's to be fixed in the BCHC Album page as soon as I can. By sharing information about what we know, or think we know, about Bell County locales and people, we can work towards a body of knowledge about which we can have a high confidence of accuracy, and continue to update that knowledge with the most current information, while preserving information that may otherwise become lost. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Gena Traylor <genatraylor@earthlink.net> To: Bill Bost <longwired@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Rock Hollow Cemeter Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:12:48 -0700 Bill- We were able to find it tonight. We just went out and looked around and asked people. Here are the directions, in case you want to post them for anyone else who might be looking for it. It is very very hard to find, but here goes: Northbound IH 35 from Salado. Take the 289A Exit, then take the first right you come to, this should be Old US 81 (Toll Bridge Road). Stay on old US 81 and go through the intersection of 81(Toll Bridge Road) and Elmer King Road, you'll cross an old bridge made of wood at the Lampasas River. Go approximately 1/2 mile past the bridge until you come to a house ( on the right- east) approximately 15 yards off the roadway. There are two gates in front of the house. Go through the southern most gate (it runs beside the house) and follow the dirt road. There are two trailer houses about 100 yards down the dirt road, you'll have to drive around them to the right ( there really is no road to follow around them). The cemetery is about 50 yards past the trailer houses. It is fenced and pretty well kept up. I hope this will help anyone else out there looking for it. It is truly a treasure hunt. Also, I wanted to let you know that on the website, the listing for Rock Hollow shows a James T. and Matilda Traylor and on the stone it is Trayler. Randy and Gena Traylor _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com