Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1992 Page: 9 of 28
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THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13,1992 - PAGE 9A
Local promoted
LIVINGSTON - Brett J. Grove
has just, been promoted to lance
corporal.
Grove is a 1990 graduate of
Livingston High School and is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. James Grove,
who are now living in Singapore.
Grove participated in the war
games in Korea in January.
He will be visiting his parents in
Singapore the first of March and is
due for home leave on July 1. After
leave, he will be attending jet
mechanic school, stationed in the
states.
Presently he is stationed in
Okinawa.
Area cemeteries rich in folklore
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LIVINGSTON — Cemeteries are
not normally considered tourist at-
tractions, but the Deep East Texas
Development Association says
there are a few graveyards in Deep
East Texas which are notable ex-
ceptions.
"We have in the region some ex-
ceptionally interesting cemeteries,
whidh are rich in history and
folklore," said Bill Chadwick of
Livingston, DETDA’s history and
tourism chairman.
Chadwick said tourists ant) Deep
East Texas residents interested in
history might want to explore these
graveyards:
* Oak Grove Cemetery, near
downtown Nacogdoches. It is the
last resting place for four signers of
the Texas Declaration of Independ-
ence. Its tombstones are also
among the most unusual in Texas,
varying in sizes, shapes and
epitaphs.
One Oak Grove marker, resemb-
ling the San Jacinto Monument,
looms above all others. Beneath it
is buried Thomas J. Rusk, the first
secretary of war for the Republic of
Texas.
When Oscar Homes, a Nacog-
doches County clerk, died in 1865,
an extract of his will was chiseled
on his tombstone: "I give and be-
queath the residue of my property
to the State of Texas to aid in the
support of persons wounded or
maimed in our defense in the
present struggle of our Confederacy
against the United States..."
* Near Point Blank, in San Jacin-
to County, is the small family
cemetery of Texas’ second gover-
nor, George T. Wood. His
tombstone, the largest in the small
graveyard, cairies a simple epitaph:
"Here lies a just man." Wood, who
died in 1858, often rode to Austin
on a mule he called "Old Pan-
talette."
* At Mt. Hope Cemetery, near
Chester in Tyler, is one of the most
unusua. markers in Deep East
Texas. Often called "the history
book n onument," the stone carries
the names of 218 words, 15 histori-
cal dat s, and the names of 13 in-
dividut. s associated with the family
of pioneer farmer James Barnes,
who founded the Mt. Hope
Methodist Church.
* At San Augustine, high on a
hill overlooking the town, City
Cemetery is the final resting place
for some of East Texas’ most
famous individuals. One of the
most famous stones is the "crippled
angel" marker," which marks the
grave of Columbus Cartwright,
who died in 1901. The marker was
toppled by a storm in 1943 and the
angel’s left wing still carries a
crack as a reminder.
The same storm overturned the
peak of a pyramid-shaped monu-
ment erected by the state for
Stephen W. Blount, who also
signed the Texas Declaration of In-
dependence.
* Shelbyville Cemetery, founded
in the 1830s when the town was
known as Nashville, also contains a
number of Texas heroes. Among
them is Sydney O. Pennington,
who fought at San Jacinto and
signed the Texas Declaration of In-
dependence.
Another famous grave is that of
Moses Fisk Roberts, a member of
the Republic of Texas Congress.
He was often called "Dog Roberts"
because he marched off to tend to
the state’s business with a pack of
hounds at his heels.
* Lufkin’s Glendale Cemetery
contains the resting place of some
of Lufkin’s most famous families-
and a horse. Ottie the mare, who
died in 1918, pulled Lufkin’s first
ice wagon and headed up many of
the town’s funerals and parades.
She belonged to C.N. Humason,
who founded Glendale in 1906 by
selling burial tracts near a school-
house on Lufkin’s east side.
"There are many interesting
cemeteries throughout East Texas,
and in each of them, visitors will
find an interesting story or two,"
said Chadwick.
He said directions to most local
cemeteries can be obtained through
the local Chamber of Commerce or
library.
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COLLEGE STATION - Holly
Gay Woods of Livingston was
among more than 3,100 Texas
A&M University graduates who
received degrees during December
commencement ceremonies.
Woods received a bachelor of
science degree in economics.
The degrees were presented at
three separate ceremonies featuring
speakers The Honorable Greg
Laughlin, Texas’ 14th District rep-
resentative to the U.S. House of
Representatives; Yoshiyuki
Kawashima, senior vice president,
chief administrative officer and
corporate secretary of Mitsui & Co.
(USA) Inc.; and Wendy Lee
Gramm, chairman of the U.S. Com-
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1992, newspaper, February 13, 1992; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth781485/m1/9/?q=%22moses+fisk+roberts%22: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.