Interview with Fred Martin Anderson and Esther Israel Anderson, June 28, 1984 Page: 3 of 10
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ESTHER: His granddaughter asked, gramma, who in the world was riding in a Mercedes. I said "don't
ask me, I didn't even see what was parked around here. Ha, Ha. Well they come and they go.
FRED: You wouldn believe who it was, it was Eddie Burdan, Burk's brother
JANE: Is that right? Up here from the filling....
FRED: His brother's daughter got married.
ESTHER: Is that what it was? From Austin.
FRED: Uh, huh from Austin.
ESTHER: I didn't know and I din' I didn't even see where cars were parked around here. Ah, ha, ha I
had too much other stuff on my mind.
JANE: You had other things um, hm.
ESTHER: 'Cause they all had their noon meal here. I didn't have time, I didn' know what was goin' on
around here.
JANE: That was a busy day.
ESTHER: I guess I shoulda went out and looked. Ha, ha.
JANE: Checked it all out. One more thing I wanted to ask you before I leave is about Bratton cemetery.
You were talking about Bratton cemetery and that used to be the road, when they cut the road that they
moved uh some of those, there's a mexican girl you said that.....
UNCLE: Yeh, ya come in an the curve was real sharp an you come in an the Mexican girl, she's right out
in that road, an an further up from the ranch she was her, her parents were slaves with the Brattons. She
said some 'o the slaves were buried there.
JANE: Um, hm. There's, there's a lot of fieldstones that looks like unmarked graves, you know, graves
that there hadn't been marked and you said that was kind of in the n-.northwest corner of that cemetery?
FRED:..Ya where the, where the slaves were.
JANE: Um, hum.
FRED: An I was tellin ya 'bout the old first barber o' Roun' Rock was buried kind o in the middle o the
cemetery but they ne'er put up a mark or nuttin' ya can't see where they were buried.
JANE: Ya.an I, I can,.you can't remember the name of them either?
FRED: Um? See I, she died before I got crippled, I think, wasn't it, or was it after I got Buleria?
JANE: Do you remember who he, who it was?
ESTHER: No, I don't know.
FRED: I think I happened to come by there when they's buryin a a stub an then they was nobody ta fill
the graves so I had ta fill that grave up.
JANE: Uh, hum.
FRED: An it was muddy. I don't remember, I don't remember but like I said, if they widen that road...
JANE: He was a barber from Round Rock
FRED: Yeh, he used to be a barber in Roun' Rock. They said he was the first barber in Roun' Rock
when they preached the sermon but we were so few there an he's pretty near 'n a middle o da cemetery,
not quite but if they widen' that cemetery wide as they gonna widen' it , shoot.,.Mr. Bratton was buried
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DiGesualdo, Jane; Anderson, Fred Martin; Anderson, Esther Israel & Galetto, Sylvia. Interview with Fred Martin Anderson and Esther Israel Anderson, June 28, 1984, text, May 21, 1991; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1121266/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Round Rock Public Library.