Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 2016 Page: 4 of 10
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Mathis News
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Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016
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The Cemetery of St. Mary’s is the last remnant
Mary’s active today. All other the owner of 80 land cer-
Cemetery in Bayside structures of the town of tificates (51,200 acres) Association and many of an important town in Ushed in Dec. 2010 by The
is the only remnant of St. Mary’s are gone. issued by the Republic of volunteers have kept the Coastal Bend history,
the town of St. Mary’s of The Wood Mansion is Texas.
Aransas, founded in 1857.
The St.
The
Cemetery presence marks the site Gulf Coast Stories,” pub -
History Press. His second
Herndon Williams is “Eight Centuries
affiliated with the Bayside
Historical Society and the
It is a peaceful place Refugio County Historical
formed the basis for St. under tall oaks with a Commission. He is the Email at cherndon8695@
breeze off the bay. Its author of the book, “Texas sbcglobal.net.
cemetery in good condi-
tion and it is still actively
used for burials today.
on
She went into partner-
ship with Joseph Smith
in 1838 and her land
the Texas Frontier, was
published in May 2013.
Coastal Bend
Chronicles
Mary’s.
Nancy
Brightman, wife of George
Claver Brightman, also
died in 1869 and is buried
in the cemetery.
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By C. Herndon Williams, Ph.D.
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Some of the other found-
- ing family names buried
in St. Mary’s Cemetery
still here, but it was built include Dugat, Egery,
in Black Point in 1875. Carpenter
The Brightman family Maton, Peets, Martin
Sherman
In that year, Joseph
Smith donated ten acres
of land to serve as the
cemetery for the town he
established and named on
the shores of Copano Bay.
This cemetery was first
used in 1860 and is still
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lived in the remains of a Leisering,
house built from the Neel Toupe and Talmon.
Hotel in the 1900s, but it
too is gone.
Many of the graves date Iff
to the 1870s and 1880s
When the residents of when St. Mary’s was at
St. Mary moved away in its peak,
the 1880s and 1890s after
There are probably B)
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hurricanes, they either the ri ^ hazards of K
moved the whole house or
took all the precious lum-
ber with them to Beeville,
Victoria or Rockport.
B0PDEP PATROL
Mathis
News
a series of devastating
life in St. Mary’s.
There are a number of
graves of children who
died soon after birth.
Another story might be
the deaths two months
' apart in the Martin fam-
' ily: father John Martin,
age 60, and his son A.J,
age 35, in 1879.
The cemetery fell into
a period of little use
between 1890 and the
founding of Bayside in
1909.
The St. Mary’s
Cemetery was recognized
in the Texas Centennial
ceremony in August,
1936.
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(USPS 334-040)
(ISSN 0746-5459)
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Office:
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Mathis, TX 78368
They left only the shell-
crete foundations and
underground cisterns
The lots platted for St
Mary’s in 1857 are still in
use today for that part of
Bayside.
The St. Mary’s
Cemetery is the resting
place for some of the early
pioneer families of St.
Mary’s.
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The oldest head stone
in the cemetery is for
Callie Grover Stribling.
She was age 23, the wife
of C.K. Stribling, and
died of a “fever” in 1860.
Cornelius K. Stribling done in 1936 showed
was one of the first attor- 120 grave plats and also
neys in St. Mary’s and depicted a chapel in the
the Stribling family had center which seems not to
been in Refugio County have been built,
since the 1840s. Callie
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The next oldest grave stone in the first place,
site is a ground-level Bayside Cemetery
crypt for Tirzah Anne Association was found-
Williamson who died in
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1869 at the age of 67. Dugat family of Portland
She was the daughter and Beeville restored
of General Thomas T.
Williamson who, with
Joseph Smith, was one of
the founders of St. Mary’s.
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many of the grave mark-
ers in the cemetery,
including that of Callie
Stribling by Raymond "i vmti rUdBS wze a fmmm mmies.
Tirzah Williamson was Dugat.
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Gonzales, Paul. Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 2016, newspaper, January 14, 2016; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1170464/m1/4/?q=%22Texas+Press+Association%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mathis Public Library.