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PICKENS FAMILY CEMETERY
Darst Creek Oil Field, Guadalupe County, Texas
Cemetery is in very bad shape. All
stones have fallen. Some stones are unreadable unless special
techniques are used. The cemetery is fenced with barbed wire stretched
on iron posts with no gate. Cemetery needs to be cleaned in order to
determine inscriptions on all tombstones. GO
East on Hwy 90-A for about 10 or 11 miles
LEFT
FM-1150 (to Darst Creek Field 4 mi)
RIGHT SH-80/1150
LEFT
After about one mile at the "Vantage Petroleum" lease (4.7 mi from
90-A)
LEFT At
first fork in gravel road at pump jack #46
RIGHT Cemetery is on the right hand side of road about 0.1 mi
from the entrance to the lease
The cemetery is enclosed in a barbed-wire fence with
metal posts and steel pipe corners
(it is about 1/2 acre in
size).
The cemetery is about 15 miles from the by-pass road east of
Seguin.
Submitted by Joyce Ann Pickens, Schertz, Texas 11 November 2011 There appear to be a total of 19 graves sites /tombstones. Eleven are listed below: S D Pickens (Stephen D. Pickens, age 8, son of W.C. Pickens,) Born: 27 Sept. 1858 Died: 5 Dec. 1866 “Gone beyond the --------“ {unable to read} W. M. Pickens (William Monroe , age 21, son of W. C. Pickens) Born: 15 April 1850 Died: 30 Dec. 1871 “Rest in Heaven” W. C. Pickens (William Carroll / Carrol, age 62) Born: December 19, 1818 Died: Jan. 7, 1880 “We will meet where……..{unable to read} Ellen J. Wife of W. C. Pickens (nee Wilkerson/Wilkerson aka Eleanor, age 74) Born: 17 July 1820 Died: 29 March 1894 J. A. Pickens (Jeremiah A., aka Jerry, age 36, son of W. C. Pickens) Born: 24 Dec, 1846 Died: 20 April 1883 “Gone home” M. B. Pickens (Martin B., aka Doc,age 29, son of W.C. Pickens) Born: 14 October, 1856 Died: 19 January 1886 “Jesus lover of my soul let me to thy bosom fly.” J. R. Pickens (age 40) Born: 24 Sept. 1853 Died: 4 March, 1894 Mary Pickens (age, 66 wife of J.R. Pickens) Born: 4 Feb. 1848 Died: June 23, 1914 Relationship to the Pickens Family of the following are now known: _____ Davidson (age, 71 per 1850 census tract name is J.J. Davidson) Born: 5 Feb. 1810 Died: 20 Oct, 1881 P. A. Rodgers (age, 36, name unclear--could be Roogers, or Rodcers???) Born: 31 Aug. 1847 Died: 15 March 1883 Annie of William Foster (age 18) Born: 30 Dec. 1865 Died: 13, Sept 1884 “Pasted (Passed?) on earth to meet in heaven Lost to sight to memory dear” Information in parenthesis is for clarification purposes from Pickens Family Records. |