Can anyone help Ann with her search? >From: [email protected] >Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:07:45 EDT >Subject: Ferguson Cemetery in southern Limestone County >To: [email protected] >X-Mailer: CompuServe 2000 6.0 for Windows US sub 10501 > >Hi: I am in the process of searching for the history of Ferguson Cemetery >for the purpose of having it designated for a historical marker. I have >found very little information on this cemetery. I have been to the >courthouse in Groesbeck and gotten the deed for the new part of the cemetery >but cannot find the deed for the older section. Joseph Ferguson gave the >land and is buried there but I can't locate anything to show this >transaction. He and his wife are buried in this cemetery. If you can be of >any help to me I certainly would appreciate hearing from you. I will >appreciate any information you can suggest to me to further my project. >Thanks. >Ann Walston

Ferguson Cemetery is where my ancestor Joseph Ferguson is buried along with his last wife Hannah Penrod Ferguson. They were the parents of his last 3 daughters. My GGGrandmother was his daughter by an earlier marriage. She is also buried there along with my GGrandparents & some of their children. Many of my family are buried in Ferguson Cemetery & I have been researching the families in the cemetery for some years now trying to determine the connection to our Ferguson family. I am sure the land came out of his land grant from Texas. Joseph Ferguson was on his land when Limestone Co. TX was formed. Pat Oates in TX. At 11:17 AM 8/15/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Can anyone help Ann with her search? > >>From: [email protected] >>Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:07:45 EDT >>Subject: Ferguson Cemetery in southern Limestone County >>To: [email protected] >>X-Mailer: CompuServe 2000 6.0 for Windows US sub 10501 >> >>Hi: I am in the process of searching for the history of Ferguson Cemetery >>for the purpose of having it designated for a historical marker. I have >>found very little information on this cemetery. I have been to the >>courthouse in Groesbeck and gotten the deed for the new part of the cemetery >>but cannot find the deed for the older section. Joseph Ferguson gave the >>land and is buried there but I can't locate anything to show this >>transaction. He and his wife are buried in this cemetery. If you can be of >>any help to me I certainly would appreciate hearing from you. I will >>appreciate any information you can suggest to me to further my project. >>Thanks. >>Ann Walston > > >==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== >http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ >

Have you looked for his will or the will or his widow? I looked for a deed to a cemetery in TN only to find that when his widow's estate was sold by public auction there were 172½ acres to be sold but ½ acre was set aside for a cemetery. I have never been able to find a deed and was told that there probably was not a deed since it was set up in this manner. Just a suggestion. Jean Hancock ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gina Heffernan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:17 AM Subject: [LIMEST] Fwd: Ferguson Cemetery in southern Limestone County Can anyone help Ann with her search? >From: [email protected] >Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:07:45 EDT >Subject: Ferguson Cemetery in southern Limestone County >To: [email protected] >X-Mailer: CompuServe 2000 6.0 for Windows US sub 10501 > >Hi: I am in the process of searching for the history of Ferguson Cemetery >for the purpose of having it designated for a historical marker. I have >found very little information on this cemetery. I have been to the >courthouse in Groesbeck and gotten the deed for the new part of the cemetery >but cannot find the deed for the older section. Joseph Ferguson gave the >land and is buried there but I can't locate anything to show this >transaction. He and his wife are buried in this cemetery. If you can be of >any help to me I certainly would appreciate hearing from you. I will >appreciate any information you can suggest to me to further my project. >Thanks. >Ann Walston ______________________________

I have Joseph Ferguson's will but it was after all wives were dead & some children. I have many of his deeds but feel sure that since this was a family cemetery that it was never set aside as a cemetery on the original deed. He gave much of his land to his children including my GGGrandmother. I feel that he probably thought the land the cemetery is on would stay in the family & there was no need to set it aside as a cemetery on the deed. I am also sure he never dreamed of the things that go on today could happen to a cemetery of any kind. Pat Oates At 07:18 PM 8/16/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Have you looked for his will or the will or his widow? I looked for a deed to a >cemetery in TN only to find that when his widow's estate was sold by public auction >there were 172½ acres to be sold but ½ acre was set aside for a cemetery. I have >never been able to find a deed and was told that there probably was not a deed since >it was set up in this manner. > Just a suggestion. > Jean Hancock > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gina Heffernan" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:17 AM >Subject: [LIMEST] Fwd: Ferguson Cemetery in southern Limestone County > > >Can anyone help Ann with her search? > >>From: [email protected] >>Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:07:45 EDT >>Subject: Ferguson Cemetery in southern Limestone County >>To: [email protected] >>X-Mailer: CompuServe 2000 6.0 for Windows US sub 10501 >> >>Hi: I am in the process of searching for the history of Ferguson Cemetery >>for the purpose of having it designated for a historical marker. I have >>found very little information on this cemetery. I have been to the >>courthouse in Groesbeck and gotten the deed for the new part of the cemetery >>but cannot find the deed for the older section. Joseph Ferguson gave the >>land and is buried there but I can't locate anything to show this >>transaction. He and his wife are buried in this cemetery. If you can be of >>any help to me I certainly would appreciate hearing from you. I will >>appreciate any information you can suggest to me to further my project. >>Thanks. >>Ann Walston > >______________________________ > > >==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== >http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ >