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Subject: Re: [TXCem] Transcribers - To Paul Smith
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:21:30 EDT


In answer to your library not having the book - they are still available. I
ran out and am having a new batch printed - which well may be the last because
I am working on an ADDENDUM TO AT REST. I will not do a full revision as I
did with this one, but only the Addendum to make additions and corrections. If
anyone/library/etc. wants a copy * then they should place their order now
while I have time to increase the number being printed.
* At Rest: A Historical Directory of Harris County, Texas, Cemeteries
(1822-2001) Including Burial Customs and Other Interesting Facts, With a Listing of
Past and Present Communities, Funeral Home and Monument Companies. 2nd Edition
enlarged from 307 to 509 cross-indexed listings. Compiled by Trevia Wooster
Beverly (Tejas Publications & Research, Houston, 2001). $50 includes shipping.
Purchase Orders will be accepted from libraries. Available from Tejas
Publications at 2507 Tannehill Drive, Houston, Texas 77008-3052 Pho/Fax:
713.864-6862

Does the following, from AT REST, clear up anyting for you??

Korville, Texas in northwestern Harris County, along FM 149 (now Tomball
Parkway) & Spring-Cypress Road, is now a small black community. The bulk of its
settlers were freed slaves from Alabama made up the 1870s population. At one
time called Pilotville, it was named for Paul Kohrmann, German immigrant, who
became the postmaster.; the post office closed in 1911. A number of Germans
fleeing compulsory military service in the old country settled in the area and it
became a haven for German families during World War II. It had a cotton gin
and sawmill in the early 1900's, and when Agnes Tautenhahn Kohrmann had the
general store in 1910, the population was stood at fifty. The community's
recreation center was the Black school during the days before integration. The area
was once a part of the Common School District No. 1, and had a local school in
1906, now part of Klein Independent School District.
Cemeteries in Kohrville:
The Bottoms (Dowdell)
Buvinghausen
Kohrmann
Kohrville
Meyer
Pilgrim Branch

267. KOHRVILLE COMMUNITY CEMETERY: Black. FM 149 & Spring-Cypress Road, on
Prairie Hill Road between Carter and Cassey. See The 1960 Sun 08 Mar 1989.
See The Heritage of North Harris County, 1977. 329P

373. PILGRIM BRANCH CEMETERY: See Amos Cemetery. 329P

14. AMOS CEMETERY: Black, begun through the Pilgrim Branch Missionary
Baptist Church, 16813 Hufsmith-Kohrville Road, Houston TX 77070. 281.376-2266.
Kohrville Community (qv). South of Spring-Cypress Road on both sides of the
Kohrville-Prairie Hill Road Well cared for. Rev. C.E. Martin, Pastor, 281.351-0483.
329P

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Recently we dedicated an official Texas Historicla Marker for the Kohrville
Community. The old schoolhouse/community building had been saved and moved to
the Klein Heritage Park. Marker Text:
Marker Title: Kohrville Community
Address: 18202 Theiss Mail Rd
City: Klein
County: Harris
Year Marker Erected: 2003
Designations: na
Marker Location: Klein, 18202 Theiss Mail Rd.
Marker Text: Kohrville Community In the 1870s, former slaves from Alabama
and Mississippi settled on Cypress Creek, near a store owned by German
immigrants Paulin and Agnes Kohrmann. The Kohrville Community, centered on farming,
ranching and lumber industries, offered schools for white and black students.
When area schools consolidated, Kohrville became part of Klein I.S.D.; African
American students attended Kohrville School. In the late 1940s, the school
district financed a new school for them. An architect, probably Alfred C. Finn,
designed the new schoolhouse, which was later moved to this site. The school
district was desegregated in the 1960s. Kohrville and its neighboring
communities now are part of the ever-growing Houston suburbs. (2003)

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To clarify, the black group did not come straight from Alabama. They first
were in the Houston area with the Pilgrim's Rest Church ... when population
began to get too close, they chose to move north of Houston.

Following is also from my book AT REST ...
374. PILGRIM REST CEMETERY: Black; slaves. John C. Taylor Survey; Piney Point
Estates at 22 East Shady Lane, in the Piney Point Village. "Lost;" 1865 - .
Removed from the "exempt" tax rolls at some point, and a road was cut
through the area in 1960 (a portion of the Cemetery cleared by Court Order #565726
and full cemetery is shown on Sketch No. A-T-14158-H, Houston Lighting & Power
Co., Engineering Dept. Nov. 1, 1960) and the 20+ markers have disappeared
over the years. The one existing marker is for Fred Fisher, Died April 17, 1919,
Company 113, BN, Regiment 16 D.B. Owners are the Pilgrim Rest Missionary
Baptist Church is at 3410 Jeanetta Road, 77063, south of the current Piney Point
Village (qv). See "Pilgrim Rest church marks 129th ," ThisWeek Section,
HOUSTON CHRONICLE 06 Mar 1994.In 2000-2001 the Pine Point Estates Homeowners
Association is trying to save this property from development. 490T

-- there has been concern lately that an apartment bldg was going up over it
-- NOT SO! On the site of the old Rosewood Hospital, just in front of the
cemetery property, there is indeed new building ... but it does not encroach on
the cemetery (clear land; all markers long gone).
Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you -
Trevia

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