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From: "Trevia W Beverly" <>
Subject: Re: [TXCem] Matagorda Cemetery
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 04:58:11 -0600
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For some reason I did not receive the first online message via TX-CEMETERIES
...
Cranes Mill at Startsville [Startzville] is in Comal Co so it's not the same
as Sheryl's Matagorda Co.

There is a Texas Historic Marker for Matagorda County ....
http://www.thc.state.tx.us/ then go to Atlas, county search [Matagorda] and
scroll down to the appropriate marker text:
Marker Title: Matagorda Cemetery
Address:
City:
County: Matagorda
Year Marker Erected: 1970
Designations: na
Marker Location: from Matagorda take SH 60 approximately 1 mile
northeast to Matagorda Cemetery
Marker Text: One of earliest cemeteries in Texas. Founded soon after
town was settled, about 1829, as part of Stephen F. Austin's colony. Marked
graves numbered 650 in 1969, but interments exceed 1,000. Inscriptions on
stones chronicle frontier hardships. Those buried include victims of 1862
yellow fever epidemic; soldiers of Texas Revolution War of 1812, and the
Civil War; also Karankawa Indian victims. Several patriots of early Texas
are buried here as well. Among them is Samuel Rhoads Fisher, a signer of the
Texas Declaration of Independence. (1970)


If you contact the Texas Historical Commission in Austin, for the cost of
copies you can receive a copy of the original application papers. It is
doubtful that there will be a full listing attached - and back in 1970 the
requirements were not what they are now so who knows how much help you'll
find in it.
My suggestion is that you contact the Matagorda County Genealogical
Society at PO Box 264, Bay City TX 77414 or the library down there and ask
if a transcription has been published. ---
And yes, it has. Sheryl does not indicate where she is located (a good
idea if you wish optimum help) but at Clayton Library for Genealogical
Research in Houston we have such a book: "Matagorda Cemetery, Matagorda
County" prepared by the Matagorda County Junior Historians in 1974, ca. 100
pp. 917.6452M425
Check the online catalog of your own or other nearby libraries to see if
a copy might be nearby.

Cricket, I took a quick check of our THC atlas site for Comal County - no
marker has been done for the Cranes Mill Cemetery at Startzville ... if you
live in that area, perhaps you'll be the one to apply for the fairly new
designation of Historic Texas Cemetery. Application process is online at
the THC site, or contact me if you have questions.

Trevia Wooster Beverly
[secretary, Harris County Historical Commission]
Houston.

----- Original Message -----
From: "P.C. "Cricket" Ingraham" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:15 PM
Subject: RE: [TXCem] Matagorda Cemetery


> I am still a little uncertan about how this whole email stuff works, so I
am
> going to ask what might be a silly question: Are you speaking about the
> Cranes Mill Cemetery in Startsville outside of New Braunfels? Just
> checking. If it is the same one, I will cut one of my students loose to
> have a look/see
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sheryl McNally [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:00 AM
> To:
> Subject: [TXCem] Matagorda Cemetery
>
>
> Information on the net states the subject cemetery was one of the
> earliest in TX and includes victims of the 1862 yellow fever epidemic.
> My husband's g.grandfather's first wife was a victim of that particular
> epidemic in Matagorda. Does anyone know if you can find out if someone
> specific was buried there in 1862?
>
> Sheryl McNally
>
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