Cibolo Creek Cemetery Guadalupe County, Texas  

Cibolo Creek Cemetery - Guadalupe County, TX

This small cemetery, with at least 26 marked and many unmarked graves, was rediscovered in March, 1992. Mary Alice Farrell of El Paso surveyed it at that time and has been kind enough to offer her observations for publication here. The numbered notes in the text were also provided by Mary Alice.

She tells us: The exact location of this cemetery was lost to our family's knowledge for over 100 years. My father, Byron Anderson, looked for it all of his life, but never found it. I made a project of locating it in early 1992. I had searched through eleven known cemeteries in the area and two on private property when a property owner told me he remembered a "pretty big cemetery up off the bank of Cibolo Creek where I fished off and on for fifty years."

Mr. Rudy Winkler of RFW Inc (contractors) can be reached......Selma, TX 78154. His phone there is 210/651-5116.
Enclosed in the largest 4' chainlink fenced area are at least four unidentified graves outlined by rocks plus the following stones: 
R. B. EVANS                     10 Nov 1821      7 Sep 1905
Rebecca EVANS                   12 Aug 1835     26 Aug 1908

Nell Elizabeth NEIGHBORS        10 May 1896      6 Sep 1900

Helen HAILE                     14 Apr 1856     10 Feb 1906

Murdoch MURCHISON1              16 Mar 1801      4 Feb 1880
Sarah Ross MURCHISON1           13 Nov 1799     26 Jun 1859 (DAR marker)
Many other graves apparent from sunken areas in this enclosure; no other stones at all.

1John M., the son of these Murchisons, married Isabelle DICKSON. The eight-member Anderson family and the Murchison family, including Isabelle DICKSON MURCHISON and her sister Mary Temple DICKSON ANDERSON (see her grave marker below) came to Guadalupe county together from Rusk county in 1852.

Just outside this large fenced area, near the gate: 

Lena WAHL                       10 May 1877     27 Oct 1918
By the side of her grave, another marked grave, stone overturned, unread. Other rocks noted, unmarked graves.
Enclosed in small area surrounded by 5' chainlink fence: 
Adolph KREUSLER                 26 Nov 1857      5 Jan 1908
Unmarked grave (depression) beside this grave.
Outside of this small fenced area are at least three unmarked graves outlined by stones scattered around under trees.
Enclosed in a small area surrounded by an old ornate iron fence, about 30' to 40' east of the largest fenced area: 
William J. YOUNG                28 Dec 1840     18 Jul 1884
Rebecca J. PANCOAST YOUNG       13 Aug 1841      8 Jul 1876
William YOUNG, Jr.              22 Feb 1876     15 Nov 1876
Anna COOPER YOUNG2               3 Oct 1845     17 Aug 1908

2We presume Anna was his second wife
Enclosed in the newest iron-fenced area3, about 20' west toward Cibolo Creek from largest chainlink fenced area (old low rock wall inside iron fence) there is a tall, large cenotaph-type stone: 
W. W. ANDERSON4                 17 Nov 1816     22 Apr 1885
Mary Temple DICKSON ANDERSON    14 Feb 1823      8 Feb 1860
Sarah Catherine ANDERSON        23 Jul 1849     28 Jan 1860
Laura ANDERSON5                 23 Nov 1880      8 Feb 1883
Hugh Oliver ANDERSON6           12 Mar 1872     25 Jun 1875
3I had this new iron fence installed in July, 1992.
4W. (William) W. Anderson is my GGGF (great-great grandfather), the first of my Andersons to come to Texas. He had a Land Certificate dated 1839 when they lived in Rusk county from March, 1845 to January, 1852. He then bought two sections of this land on the Guadalupe county side of Cibolo Creek. My GGF, Irvin E. Anderson, W.W's oldest child, and all the remaining members of the family left the area between 1883 and 1885 when old W.W. died, going to different places farther west in Texas.
5Daughter of Hugh Allen Anderson II and Mary Ellen HAMILTON who lived on this property with his father, W. W. Anderson.
6Son of James William Anderson and Jane Kennedy CRAIGHEAD. James was another son of W. W. Anderson. 
 
Mr. Rudy Winkler of RFW Inc (contractors) can be reached......Selma, TX  78154. His phone there is 210/651-5116.
To get to the cemetery, go north on Evans Road from I-35 where I-35 crosses the Bexar county - Guadalupe county line. (This is in NE Bexar county, about one mile south of the Comal county line). Evans Road runs along the west bank (Bexar county side) of Cibolo Creek. After 1/4 mile, a road on the right goes across the creek at a low-water crossing, crosses into Guadalupe county and goes up the steep creek bank to Winkler's business buildings. Rudy Winkler's residence is the last one on the right. The other residences are occupied by his married daughters and families who work in the business.

The large, fenced and gated pasture on the right, between the business buildings and Mr. Winkler's house, contains the cemetery up on a knoll in a clump of trees. There is a road (rather a tractor trail) that passes on the left side of the cemetery and passes around to the pasture behind it.

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