This cemetery is in McLennan County. Thanks, Sandra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Van Wyk" <s.vanwyk@verizon.net> To: <TX-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [TX-Cem] Welcome > Thanks for this opportunity to give an update on the cemetery we're > working on. > > Harper Cemetery is in Elk, McLennan County. It was 3 acres of abandoned > briars, thorns, snakes, overgrown brush. What a mess. > > My dad had always talked about this cemetery that held the graves of three > of his siblings, but it wasn't until Oct 2000 that he gave directions to my > sister and myself. This was one of the last projects he gave us before his > passing in Dec 2000. He always had a project going on. > > Little did we know that at the same time, another lady in the area was > searching for her ancestors and found them in this cemetery. We met her and > joined our efforts. That January we had our first work day at the cemetery. > We were joined by 35 other interested neighbors, family and friends. April > 2001, we held our first organizational meeting for a cemetery association. > > The cemetery is coming together and beginning to look beautiful. We had > another work day last weekend; what a great time we had, cutting down trees, > burning and running from snakes. > > There are many pioneer families from Waco buried here. The only way we can > keep this effort going is to find others to help us. Please take a minute > to look at the listing of graves at the links below. > > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/tx/county/mclennan/ > > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/mclennan/cemetery/harper.txt > > > I will be happy to look up any information I have on any family members. > > I salute each of you who work on saving our Texas cemeteries, regardless of > what you're able to do to help. > > Sandra > Denton County Texas > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Susan Hawkins" <hawkins@texoma.net> > To: <TX-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 11:20 AM > Subject: [TX-Cem] Welcome > > > > I wish to Welcome all of you to the list. Though I am the new list mom > > and most of you do not know me. Besides adopting the Historic Texas > > Cemeteries website and > > list I also have the Texas Tombstone Project. As well as other websites > > in the Genweb and the archives etc. > > Everyone on this list is interested in Cemeteries and I would love to > > meet you all and see what your interest is . Are you working on data or > > on the cemeteries themselves? what is your area of interest? > > I love all facets and am putting together photographs of tombstones > > that have markings of interest as well as unique art of Texas > > tombstones. So many of them are beautiful and we have so many kinds. > > Everything from folkart types to professional German and Italian > > stonemasons who worked on cathedrals in Europe came here and worked the > > tombstones. > > I'm trying to find photographs also of the 'storebought' types , those > > that could be ordered usually from 'back east' and shipped here. > > Please all of you introduce yourselves , I would love to meet you! > > Susan > > > > > > ==== TX-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > > Visit our web site > > Historic Texas Cemeteries > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txcemeteries > > >