EVANT SCHOOL YARD CEMETERY
June 8, 2003
This afternoon we visited the school yard
cemetery in Evant. The graves are immediately south of First
Baptist Church and north of the school.
If I could have jumped across the fences and
had something to use in making the letters stand out, I am sure that I
would have more information.
Some of the gravestones are on the school
side of the driveway and some are in the grass on the church side of the
driveway. Some may have been under a paved driveway located
between the church and the school.
A few of the graves in the school yard are
enclosed in fences--others are not.
Beginning at the east end:
1. Grave with concrete on top and
a new marker. This grave was at east end of a fenced plot: (not
inside the plot)
| NAME |
BORN |
DIED |
OTHER |
| LEE,
MARY BUSH |
1859 |
1887 |
? |
-
2. Next is a fenced plot with several (at
least 4 and maybe parts of another one or two) stones--most broken and
displaced.
On one stone I could read
| NAME |
BORN |
DIED |
OTHER |
| LACK____, BIRTHA |
? |
? |
? |
Birtha Lack_
This stone is the only one which appears to
be still "planted"
From outside the fence, I could not read the
dates. If the other three broken stones inside the fence had
engravings, it must have been on the bottom side.
3. The other fenced area had one stone on
the inside:
| NAME |
BORN |
DIED |
OTHER |
| CURRY, MARTHA E/F. |
May
______ |
April 5,
1889 |
Husband: G./C.
H. Currey |
4. & 5. On the north side of this fenced
plot were two markers lying on the ground face up with the bottom of the
stones perpendicular to the fenced plot.
(The stonecutter did not center the
lettering on the stone)
| NAME |
BORN |
DIED |
OTHER |
| CASOR, J. J. |
Aug. 26,
1861 |
Oct. 13,
1884 |
? |
| ANDREWS, __AIC__
I./L. P. |
Jan. 4,
1884 |
June 11,
1884 |
? |
6. & 7. Across the driveway in the
grass on the churchside were two gravestones.
| NAME |
BORN |
DIED |
OTHER |
| WALTON, EMILIE |
? |
? |
Husband:
__. __. Walton |
| E. W.** |
1849 |
1891 |
? |
** And 2 other pieces which were not the
same kind of stone as that of Emilie Walton's stone. These other
two pieces appeared to fit together one half had
E. W.
and the other half had
b. 1849
d. 1891
There may be another plot--at least it was a
curbed area around a couple of trees (on the church side) but I did not
see any evidence of a gravestone inside the curbing.
From the street on the south side of Evant's
square, it is easy to find the school yard cemetery by turning south
between Bee House Lodge and First Baptist Church and driving toward the
school.
From US281 turn east on at the north edge of
the school property and drive to the area behind First Baptist Church.
Joe Lee remembers that in his childhood,
this cemetery was larger and perhaps was called Baptist Cemetery.
8. & 9. From
Bobbie Ross:
While doing a look up for someone I ran across this in
the Coryell County Families book: Morris Mercellis Brown and
Helen Drucella Brown were were married on wagon trains that
stopped in Evant. They lost 2 children that were buried where
the new school is now. There tombstones are still there (in
1988?). Page 147
| NAME |
BORN |
DIED |
OTHER |
| BROWN, CHILD |
? |
? |
Parents:
Morris Mercellis & Helen Drucella Brown |
| BROWN, CHILD |
? |
? |
Parents:
Morris Mercellis & Helen Drucella Brown |
EVANT
