Is this the same Montgomery's who are also buried at Indian Creek. [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles A. Wyly" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:22 PM Subject: [ERATH] Bushong-Montgomery-Solomon- White-Batchelor- McClure -Bushong Academy > > These graves are located 7miles south of Stephenville off Hwy 281Selden- > Salem- Duffau- Johnsville Road next open road past the Selden Road and > the Pleasant Hill Methodist Church. Some are buried in Honey Creek > cemetery- near first Hico location on the Stanley Haedge Dairy. . It is > in a pasture and not fenced separate from the pasture. Most headstones > are flat on the ground now. I first saw the Cemetery, next to what was > the old O.C. Wyly farm on Hwy 281- in 1940's while working with the > Riggs- Hollis Thresher during WW2. Elderymen and some women were filling > in the labor needs , some men past 70. No one in a 30 man thresher crew > could remember the cemetery being used or worked in their lifetime- > except maybe Walter Hollis and he was rather quiet. some Hollis family > lived in that area- on a Duffau mail Route. My info is partly from a > cemetery Reading by Dorothy Scrimsher and Marilyn Mills Ewers. My copy is > dated 1990. I have been contacted by some with family connections to > Bushong and Montgomery, and Solomon Brothers of Hico( any connections > unknown, if any) have run stores there for 60 years or more. > > neighbors of these folk were Cox and Aycock. > > Thje only readable headstones they found in one formerly fenced area were > > 1. Mary, wife of J.( Jacob) Bushong, born July 29-1840 d. 24 jan. 1879 > 2.M.E. Bushong, born 29 July 1840- died 30 March 1879. > > So much for Tom Arendell building the first house south of Stephenville- > Selden Area. > > Nearby are other stones- down and some broken. > 1. Rev. Dr. F.M. Montgomery died 9/11/1872 age 42 years and 2 days. His > Masonic headstone appears from the way it fell to have been facing North > And South, We know he was a teacher and a Doctor. several other gravesare > in the area- some adult. In the 1940's they were all standing - still > fenced and grown up and several readable headstones were easily seen. > > Could some of these misssing headstones be like the ones which showed up > in a Dallas Building Salvage and Antique Dealer - inside the Trinity > Levees?? This was widespread in Texas cemeteries not maintained and there > is a Texas law which makes such removal and sale a criminal offense. > > The 1862 Voter registration list : > Andrew J. Bushong Precinct 3, age 20, in County 6 years- Native Texan > > George W. Bushong, age 20 yearsin Precinct 10 months- from Alabama > > Erath County Federal Census July 1870- Duffau Post Office- Duffau Creek, > Page 23, 144-156 > > Mary Bushong,,age 66 , Born in Tennessee. > Soloman , Mrs. Mary L., age 41- Alabama > Bushong, Sarah E. age 37, B. Alabama > " Eveline, , 30, B. Kentucky > " Andrew, age 26, " > " Sallie A. G. 22 " > White, George T.W. 18 Texas > " James R.L. 16 " > " Nancy A.T.. 14 " > Bushong, G. W.T. 43 Alabama > " Catherine 30 Texas > " Mary M. 4 " > " Sarah S.A. 1 " > A close neighbor was Thomas Hollis. > > Several other Bushongs, Montgomery and Solomamn are in their list-, > Montgomerys were not in 1870 census. > 6 Batchelors are also in this reading- will send more if someone sees a > link. > > Wendell Montgomery of West- of the pharmacy and Czech Kolache kitchen > was in his 50's in 1960 he said his dad was a Doctor and he had moved > tform bosque County and bought the old Wylkie hiouse in West as a home > and a clinic. > > Take care, > Charles A. Wyly > " > > > > > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 2003 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: [email protected] http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: [email protected] > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >