To Gail, all the leg work bunch, and typists - I for one want to tell you how much I appreciate all of the hard work. I really do wish I were there in good ole' Texas, especially Harrison County and Panola so I could be helping. I spend every available minute I have in some graveyard. This past weekend my wife and I went to Charleston, Buford, and James Island, South Carolina looking in graveyards that date back to the 1700s with folks that were born in the 1600s. Now that's exciting. I found a few of my distant cousins on my mother's side. (my dad is the Harrison connection). Here is an entry I have in my Hill family files from Mrs. Inez Hughes, our former great Historical Librarian in Marshall. OLD BORDER CHURCH and CEMETERY - Harrison County, Texas (Information from Historical Museum Library, Marshall) "Now a large, not well kept cemetery. Could find only one white grave with marker. There may be others under the piled-up brush. The white cemetery is in the middle of the Negro cemetery. The old church was moved to the site of the present Concord Cemetery. Mr. Sidney Coleman of Waskom tells me several of the white graves and stones were moved from old Border to Concord. The one marked "white grave" has a bronze plaque set in a cement block and reads as follows: Mary Catherine James Steel 1789-1840 wife of Reverend William Steel established Old Border Episcopal Church in 1839 HILL CEMETERY NEAR WASKOM Harrison County, Texas Old cemetery in a field near the Ark-La Gasoline Plant about 1 mile off F.M. Road 9. (the Waskom burying Ground). Heavily grown with brush and no longer kept up. There are a number of graves marked only by fieldstones and several built up with brick with no markers. Some of the Rudds were formerly buried here but have been moved to Restland Cemetery in Waskom." I once jumped the fence to this old cemetery and it was getting too late for me to do any good. I have been told that however bought this land many years ago just bulldozed right over the biggest part of the cemetery and piled up the stones. There was a few noticeable stones still standing and some of the older Waskom graves behind their own gated fence. The oldest Hill descendent that I can trace back to is William Spalding Hill and his wife Catherine Ingram Hill who I believe were buried here in the early 1850s. If anyone is able to check out this location and really give the place a good going over to see is there are any stacked stones, please let me know. Yours in spirit, from South Carolina. Trip Wilson 201 S. Franklin Drive Florence, South Carolina 29501 acwilson@southtech.net -----Original Message----- From: Jan Craven <jcraven@iamerica.net> To: TXHARRISON-L@rootsweb.com <TXHARRISON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 5:34 AM Subject: Re: Smyrna Cemetery >TOO FUNNY! >I have an ancestor buried under a rock in Harrison Co! But I don't know which >rock! Old Peter Whetstone is under a rock. (Pun unintended!VBG) >Sure wish I knew which rock! >Jan >At 10:13 PM 6/8/1998 -0500, you wrote: >>Jean and all, >> >>I heard a genealogy talk last year from someone who wanted to prove >>where her ancestors were buried in Tennessee - something about inserting >>a tube through the earth where she thought they were and testing the >>D.N.A. :) >> >>OK now, everybody with an ancestor hiding under a rock, say Amen! (And >>a deafening roar was heard...) >> >>Gail >> >>JCope8007@aol.com wrote: >>> >>> I know Austin Copeland is buried at Smyrna Cemetery but there is no marker, >>> just a rock and I would like to be able to prove which rock he is under. >Like >>> most of my ancestors they all have hidden under rocks. >>> >>> Jean >> >> >>==== TXHARRISON Mailing List ==== >>Unsubscribe from the mail list by sending a message to >mailto:TXHARRISON-L-request@rootsweb.com >> that contains the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. >> >> >> >> > > >==== TXHARRISON Mailing List ==== >Unsubscribe from the mail digest by sending a message to >mailto:TXHARRISON-D-request@rootsweb.com >that contains the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. >