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From: "Sandra Van Wyk" <>
Subject: Re: [TXCem] Transcribers - To Paul Smith
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:03:10 -0500
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Hey, I think you have been walking thru my sisters neighborhood!! Things
just sound really familiar. What is ACE. She was just laid off by
Compaq>>>HP!!

svanwyk
Denton County, Texas
----- Original Message -----
From: "PRSmith" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TXCem] Transcribers - To Paul Smith


> 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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> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:45 AM
> 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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