RED RIVER CEMETERY
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This
cemetery was located 10 miles north of Hooks, Bowie County Texas,
between the RED RIVER banks and a lake called WILSON’S. The lake
is now dried up and no sign remains as cattle grazing and a
bulldozer have destroyed this cemetery. It is known that the first
grave was that of an outlaw who died on the spot, and those who
found him buried him there. This happened in the late 1790’s.
Then, a group of surveyors from Missouri, working out of FT.
HOOKS, (today known as Hooks, TX), were killed by Indians as they
surveyed for a safe crossing of the Red River. They were found by
a party from Ft. Hooks and buried there. We do not know how many
were killed. Proof of this incident is in several diaries, owned
by the HOMER ELLIOTT family of California. The following names
listed were buried there that we have data on.
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CINDY
KATES, Died, 11 June1814;
her stone was white marble. JOHN
KATES, (husband of Cindy),
Death date not known; his stone was white marble. SAM
COOPER, SR., Death date not known: his stone was white marble. ROBERTA (Thompson) COOPER, (wife of Sam, Sr.), Death date not known; her stone was white marble. MOTHER
& FATHER of RENO BOLANDER, both had white marble stones. RENO
BOLANDER and WIFE, (first name unknown); they had a white marble stone, (wife was the daughter of
John and Cindy Cates) SISTER
or AUNT of RENO BOLANDER, (name unknown); she had a dark stone. MOTHER of SAM COOPER, Sr. (name unknown); her stone was white marble. JANE
(Bolander) COOPER, Born, 1846, Died, 6 Aug. 1887, in Belton, TX; her stone
was white marble. (Wife of Sam Cooper, Jr.,
and Daug. of Reno Bolander). SAM
BOLANDER, JR. Died, 12 March 1913, Buried, 17 March 1913; he had a dark
stone and it was placed at his grave in Dec.
1913. This stone was bought in Texarkana. TWIN
CHILDREN of FRANK
and CHARLOTTE MOOR,
(or ? MOORE); Their grave
was marked with a small
double white marble stone with 2 little lambs, and an
inscription on it. JOHN COOPER, son of SAM THOMAS COOPER, JR., supplied this information. He lived in Broken Bow, OK. He also stated, “At one time there were about 35 stones, although as many as 50 people could have been buried there.” At the close of the TEXAS REVOLUTION, relatives of those buried there, moved all graves back from the edge of the RED RIVER to near the lake, called WILSON’S. Submitted by Elizabeth (Scott) Wilburn |
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