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From: "Faye Herbort" <>
Subject: Re: [TXCem] Transcribers - To Paul Smith
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:26:09 -0500
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I am seeking information on the Goodman Cemetery, Bandera Co. Tx.
I am looking for the gravesite of Jessie Elizabeth Miears Griffin and
Frances Caldora Cruce Miears. Have reason to believe they may be buried in
this cemetery. ANY HELP APPRECIATED!!

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Subject: Re: [TXCem] Transcribers - To Paul Smith


> 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
>
> -------
> 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)
>
> -----
> 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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