'Caldwell County, Texas Cemetery Records'

Subject: 'Caldwell County, Texas Cemetery Records' Thu 03 Apr 2008, 12:55 am

Compiled by Mrs. Arnolia Appling, Mrs. Marjorie Fairchild and Mrs. Vivian Gray ~ first published in 1971 and reissued ten years after, this bound work appears to have found second life in the digital environment, with the exception of the following cemeteries:

Ohlendorf ("located in northwest Caldwell County, east of FM Road 2001. It is fenced but not kept. There are 15 monuments. Copied on Feb. 12, 1969")

Teas, of which the following is written ~

"Located approximately 3 1/2 miles northeast of Mineral Springs Cemetery. It is in a large pasture and is nearly impossible to find unless someone gives the right directions. It is in the southern edge of the Branyon Oil Field. The cemetery is not fenced and is not cared for. There are nine monuments and numerous graves are marked with fieldstones. Copied on January 26, 1969."

Wells (situated about three miles northeast of the Tilmon community. Unfenced and uncared for in 1968, the inscriptions of thirty-nine monuments were copied, with numerous others being illegible, broken or consisting of fieldstones)

Westfork, described thus:

"Copied by Mrs. Gus T. Brown, Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Spring on Nov. 19, 1970. Located on the trammel Lease in the oilfield between Stairtown and Joliet. Impossible to give directions to the cemetery, the only way we found it was to get one of the oilfield workers to lead the way to it. At one time there were quite a few graves, but now there are only four stones left. The cemetery is in a pasture and not fenced."

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