Kathy, thanks for the large font as I DO have sight problems, but size 12 is okay for me. The vanished community of Halsmith is way out in the fields of Harmon County outside of Hollis, oKLA. There is a small waterway that snakes through that area called: BuckCreek. The Kite land bordered this Creek and backed up to Halsmith. This is OKLAHOMA and it was part of the disputed land from Texas and Oklahoma which was not settled for years. My mother Dovie Kite was born in the house which physically sat in Oklahoma and she said if she was born in the barn?--she would have been born in the state of Texas.** There was a barbed wire fence around the cemetery at one time*-it is a small place and overgrown. When a cemetery is restored it can go many ways--but the most common is that someone gives their time and labor to mow the place and sit up the stones if they find any laying down. Usually they just put them up as they are located. There is a plot map at the library in town or the funeral home?-and I believe it is 'on line' at rootsbeb, genweb system for Oklahoma, Harmon County. There is a picture of the cemetery. NO they do not dig up graves*- however, ONCE THE GRASS is cut--or in the winter when it is flat...sometimes in the early morning or evening time--when the sun is at a slant....you can see the grave depressions as retangular patterns on the land. Then, we just hope we can find any record of the death, burial or memory in the family. The history associations, United Daughters of COnfederacy, NSDAR, and familys of the buried individuals usually try to save these old cemeteries-and there are thousands of them across the country. In Milam Co.tx. alone there are over 200 and many people not identified. There are other ways of locating a grave's placement in a cemetery besides the visual of a sunken casket. I have not been to Hollis to search for Victoria's grave but am certain that the letter that tells of her burial is true. It was written by Lizzie Dodd Kite's oldest daughter, Lenora Kite Batten and sent to me personally in 1961. I still have it and it states something like this; Grandma Victoria's funeral was in Hollis, body taken to Halsmith and I went with Rubye and Hubert Nelms and my boyfriend,Robert Batten, who I later married. Many years have we searched for Meshack and Eliza's grave and also some of their children, Johnston Collins burial also. From walking through most of the Williamson Co. area many taphophiles have left, "no stone unturned". As of now..we do not know their actual burial. We do know where 'approx' that Johnston Collins's wife was buried. It was just over the border from Williamson County,TX to the land on the Milam Co. side. The death paper*** states that she was taken from Milam to Williamson and there her body was prepared for burial and buried in Milam. No cemetery name. Williamson County had the largest town with an undertaker and was closer to the farm than any town on the Milam side. Louis Taylor Dodd and Victoria's land was on the boundry Milam county, tx.****.close to the Williamson co. line. As far as we know there are no graves on L.T. and VIctoria's land? I have not personally searched, there, but we know its location. * from account of R.D.Cline, senior who said he often repaired the fence on visits many years ago. **birth notarized statement of Dovie L.Kite Hugg McKown. *** Tx.pension papers for Confederate service of Johnson Collins showing certificate of death of wife and beneficiary of pension, Jane Collins (Jane Coursey Collins). ****land document located by James Williams of Milano,Tx and copied from actual Milam county, TX map. Oh, yes, to answer your question...Montgomery County is in Texas. I think it borders or is very close to Williamson Co.TX.? I have not checked the land owned by Meshack Collins and Eliza in Montgomery Co.TX. and later farmed by Johnston Collins and his wives: Mary first and then Jane second. It is possible that this home and farming land may be the burial of Mary McEy Collins the first wife of Johnson and possible burial? for Meshack, ELiza and Johnson? now, thats something to check out. I have never checked the land (farmed before 1860 and after 1870)....but by the 1880 census Meshack,Eliza , Johnson, Jane and grandkids were in Williamson County TX. grinjudy