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 "