This cemetery is located a few miles south of the
crossing of Highway 35 over Tres Palacios Creek on the banks of the
creek. It was used by the families of Sarah Bright Lacy's children,
Lavinia Hunter Wheeler and William Hart McCrosky. There is evidence of
many graves, but only two markers and a base remain. Recorded by Shirley
Ledwig Brown,
August 20, 1981
and printed in Matagorda County Genealogical Society publication, Oak
Leaves, November 1982. Additional information from a survey and notes by
Martha Moore.
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A reference from Deming's Bridge Cemetery 1850,
Hawley Cemetery 1898, Tres Palacios Baptist Church 1852, Matagorda
County, Texas compiled by Adelaide Hall Pierce, May, 1960:
"The Lacy tract of land on the east bank of
the Tres Palacios river later became a part of the Wheeler land, and 21
graves of the Wheelers and a few of their slaves are buried there, not
far from where the old Wheeler home stood."
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Daniel & Lavinia Hunter Wheeler
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Marked
Graves
:
Wheeler, Eli Henry,
Sept. 26, 1843
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Feb. 8, 1881
Wheeler, John Jack
Aug. 26, 1846
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Feb. 18, 1881
Unmarked, but known graves:
3 children of Jack Wheeler
7 children of Lavinia H. Wheeler
McCrosky, William Hart,
Sept. 5, 1830
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April 25, 1859
, born
Austin
's Colony,
Upper Colorado River
3 slaves
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