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From: "Letty Harrington" <>
Subject: Re: [TXCem] Transcribers - To Paul Smith
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:04:18 -0500


-e had a tough time finding it too. Maybe this will help.
From Louetta (west bound) turn left onto Jones Road. You will be going
through a neighborhood. Just over the second bridge, stop and park. Stay
on that side of the gully, the south west corner. In other words, if you
are still facing the way you were driving it is on your right just over the
bridge. If you face the gully the overgrown area is to your left and grows
right up against the fences of the subdivision. We couldn't get in that way
so we followed the gully around the curve until we saw the fence of the last
house on that street (the corner house). If you look into the overgrowth,
you will have passed the chain link fence. Go directly up to the back fence
of that last house and you can see a path that runs right behind the fence.
You can squeeze in there. You will see part of the chain link fence on your
left as well as the broken gate. Keep going until you see the path fork off
to your left, deeper into the overgrowth away from the backyards. Your
first tombstone will be about 2 yards down. If that fails, I'd be happy to
meet you one weekend day and show you!
Good Luck
(281-209-0265)


Letty Harrington
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txhousto/
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gonetotexas/cemetery.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gonetotexas





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Subject: Re: [TXCem] Transcribers - To Paul Smith
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:45:50 EDT

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 3001' N, 9539' W) and runs southeast for six miles to
its
mouth on Cypress Creek, near the intersection of Grant and Jones roads (at
2959'
N, 9535' 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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