I am looking for any old cemeteries of any size that might be located North of Peoria, West of Woodbury, South of Blanton, along the HCR 2415 that runs between Hwy 22 and HCR 1335. The closest one I can come up with might be the Allison Cemetery, another option might be Woodbury or Jawbone. I have some ancestors that lived on land Abstract 584 in this area and I know at least 2 of them died there in Hill County between 1858 and 1861. The reason I am asking is because I have been unable to locate them in any of the inventoried cemetery registries so after viewing some Tax Microfilm from Baylor I at least know where the land is that they paid taxes on, which is in the area I described above. The Allison Cemetery looks like the best bet but thought I'd ask the distro list. I am looking for: John Locklear died in 1858-59 Catherine Sample died not long after birth in 1860 but her twin brother lived. I am not sure how long Catherine lived but she at least made it on the 1860 Hill county census with her mother and brother Elizabeth and John Sample. I just know from some old letters she didn't live long after birth, days, weeks, months, I am not sure of. I have been to the Hill County Library and searched everything I could find there with no luck. I also walked the Peoria Cemetery with no luck which led me to looking at the Tax Microfilm from Baylor. This at least gave me an idea of where they lived. I am now just short of taking a few days and just drive all over that area to see what I might find for lack of anything else to try. Any direction or ideas is appreciated! Thanks, Shon

Shon, I recorded the "Old Woodbury Cemetery" last fall, but don't have it on the Hill Co site yet. I went through my notes, and there is not a Locklear or Samples with a headstone buried there. However, this cemetery has been vandalized quite a bit, and just on a quick guess, probably a hundred or more graves, or what appear to be graves are not marked. Hope this helps by the process of elimination. Butch Cockerham ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shon Samples" <network.nut@verizon.net> To: <TXHILL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 3:00 PM Subject: [TXHILL] Old Hill County Cemeteries > I am looking for any old cemeteries of any size that might be located North of Peoria, West of Woodbury, South of Blanton, along the HCR 2415 that runs between Hwy 22 and HCR 1335. The closest one I can come up with might be the Allison Cemetery, another option might be Woodbury or Jawbone. I have some ancestors that lived on land Abstract 584 in this area and I know at least 2 of them died there in Hill County between 1858 and 1861. > > The reason I am asking is because I have been unable to locate them in any of the inventoried cemetery registries so after viewing some Tax Microfilm from Baylor I at least know where the land is that they paid taxes on, which is in the area I described above. > > The Allison Cemetery looks like the best bet but thought I'd ask the distro list. I am looking for: > > John Locklear died in 1858-59 > Catherine Sample died not long after birth in 1860 but her twin brother lived. I am not sure how long Catherine lived but she at least made it on the 1860 Hill county census with her mother and brother Elizabeth and John Sample. I just know from some old letters she didn't live long after birth, days, weeks, months, I am not sure of. > > I have been to the Hill County Library and searched everything I could find there with no luck. I also walked the Peoria Cemetery with no luck which led me to looking at the Tax Microfilm from Baylor. This at least gave me an idea of where they lived. I am now just short of taking a few days and just drive all over that area to see what I might find for lack of anything else to try. > > Any direction or ideas is appreciated! > > Thanks, > Shon > > > > ==== TXHILL Mailing List ==== > Website by Debbie: http://cathy_shelley.tripod.com/index.html > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txhill/ > Barb's Photo Page:http://members3.clubphoto.com/barbara260032/guest-1.phtml > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >