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From: "PRSmith" <>
Subject: Re: [TXCem] Transcribers - To Paul Smith
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:50:05 -0500
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Thanks, Trevia. As I said, I walked that drainage ditch from Louetta to Lakewood Forest and didn't see anything but that fenced in area. I had a feeling that might be it but I couldn't get in and I didn't see anything that resembled graves. Is that address, 15006, in front of the cemetery?

Genie is a friend of mine. I'll give her a call tomorrow at work. It's a shame that her cleanup effort didn't work out but I know how tough it can be to get people involved in any kind of activity much less manual labor.

BTW, you might want to note that there is no ACE any longer - it went belly up when Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard.


Good Hunting! -- Paul
aka Graveseeker on
www.geocaching.com where
YOU are the search engine!


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


Did I give the full description from AT REST... , or just brief??? Note the
Key Map Page 329W, first, to be sure you're in the right area. When I was
there, I walked to the back of the homes (board fence) and you have to really
look for an opening. You might consider calling the contact # ...


59. BOTTOMS, The: aka Southside, aka Faulkey Gulley. Black. Behind
Lakewood Forest Country Club (15006 Lakewood Forest, 77070) on opposite side of
drainage ditch. One of two cemeteries at the Kohrville community (qv) on FM 149
(now 249, the Tomball Parkway). Nov 2000 visit found grounds in deplorable
condition; saw evidence of being use for parties; very overgrown and secluded with
backyard gates opening into the cemetery. See The Heritage of North Harris
County, 1977. It has also been reported incorrectly as Dowdell (qv). RECORDED as
Faulkey Gully Cemetery in The Tejas Gazette 4:4:1999. Also see Kohrville
Community Cemetery (qv). 329W
Friends of the Bottoms Cemetery plans for a restoration project to begin
January 2002, spearheaded by The ACE [Association of Compaq Employees]
Genealogy Club, Lugenia "Genie" Parham-Evans, President. 281.970-5461 or
or <A HREF="http://www.evansparham.com/">http://www.evansparham.com/</A>;

FAULKEY GULLY. Faulkey Gully rises in the Willow Flats area of northwest
Harris County (at 30°01' N, 95°39' W) and runs southeast for six miles to its
mouth on Cypress Creek, near the intersection of Grant and Jones roads (at 29°59'
N, 95°35' W). The stream traverses an area where the coastal prairie begins to
yield to woodlands, primarily pine and oak. Area soils are primarily sandy
and clay loams. In the post-Civil Warqv years, black freedmen settled along
Faulkey Gully in an area known locally as "the Bottoms." The community's cemetery
remained 100 years later as the only reminder of the early settlement in an
area of rapidly expanding urban development. (The New Handbook of Texas)

Trevia


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