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ADDISON
LITTON CEMETERY
Last
Updated: Sunday, January 11, 2009
Cedar
Creek, Texas
Location: From the town of Bastrop, go
west, turning left on Hwy 21. A granite state highway marker is located on the
left side of the highway, 1 mile from the Cedar Creek community. The gravesite
is located on PRIVATE PROPERTY, 150 feet behind the state highway marker. Surveyed on 7/26/98 and again 3/2001. There is a wet weather creek running along
the edge and it is believed that some markers were washed away or covered with
dirt. John Waddle’s buried stone was found when a pointed stick was used to tap
the ground within the cemetery to find buried markers.
Highway marker:
Addison Litton came to Texas in
1827. Served in the Army of Texas 1836. Member of Captain Gibson Kuykendall's Company at Harrisburg. Died in Bastrop County in 1847. This
marker stands on Addison Litton League. Gravesite marked 150 yards
SSW. Erected by the State of Texas 1957.
The grave site for Addison Litton is no longer
marked. Addison Litton had the headright to this land. Most of his
descendants are buried in the Upper
and Lower Cedar Creek Cemeteries. There are several
indentions in the ground where graves are or were and four red bricks were
found, surrounded by iris, marking grave sites. One standing marker and one
marker found on the ground broken are worn smooth.
Dr. Evans Mabry was buried in this cemetery and
was the property's owner at one time. He
represented Bastrop County in the House of the Ninth Congress,
1844-1845, of the First Legislature, 1846, corresponding secretary for the
Central Democratic Committee, 1846, represented Bastrop in the House
of the Fourth Legislature, 1851 to 1853, and was a member of the Democratic
State Convention in Austin in January 1852. He died in 1853 of yellow
fever, 3 months after withdrawing from the State Senate race. He also ran the
hotel in the city of Bastrop. His son Seth moved the Mabry graves to
the Oakwood Cemetery in Austin, TX.
This cemetery is mentioned in the deed conveying
the property from Sarah W. Mabry to J.E. Harwell, Dec 22, 1869 which is
described as: A part of league No. 1 in Milam Colony and surveyed by Bartless Sims and granted to Addison Litton as
his headright situated in Bastrop County, Texas, and being a part of
a tract of land containing four hundred acres of land more or less, deeded to
me by S B Patton 9/4/1841 and recorded in Book D pages 347 & 348 in the
county Clerk's Office of Bastrop County, Texas, and being all of said tract of
land deeded and recorded as aforesaid lying on the North side of Cedar Creek
and containing 200 acres more or less and bounded as follows, to-wit: On the
south by Cedar Creek on the west Mahar's Creek on the North by the
southern boundary line of a part of said league No. 1 and owned by Mrs. Ham
White and on the East by a part of said league No 1 formerly owned by B Owens
and Benj. Smithson said land except one half acre in the NE corner including
the graveyard together with all and singular the rights members hereditemants..... The original deed, where Mrs. Mabry
purchased the land from Samuel B. Patton, also states it is fronted
by the old San Antonio Road, (Hwy 21).
Litton, Addison headstone
unmarked grave
Venerable, A Rev
headstone m w 1820 1909 First Moderator of the Trinity Valley Association
Waddle, John E headstone
m w 12/25/1876 8/20/1878
Winans, Robert headstone m w 12/15/1839 1840 Son of Francis and Julia
Whitaker Winans.
Julia Ann Whitaker Winans, mother of Robert, is supposed to be buried in this
cemetery.
There are 3 headstones
located beside Robert's that are no longer readable.
There was a rock with the initials J. H.
scratched in it, which could be for J. E. Harwell who purchased the land from
Sarah Mabry, near Rev. Venerable's headstone.
Unknown person marker
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