Tombstone Inscriptions 
In Bastrop Cemetery

BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS


A Large Segment Of The History Of Every Old Community Will Be Found Written On The Tombstone 
Inscriptions In Its Old Cemetery.
This Is True Of Bastrop County, Texas. The Writer Has Visited And Examined Many Old Cemeteries In Texas 
And Other States And Has Yet To Visit Any Community That Excels The Bastrop Cemetery In This Respect.
Not All Of The Inscriptions Are Copied,
But Enough Have Been Thus Preserved To Tell The Very Interesting Story Of
Most Of The Old Families Who Settled Bastrop And Bastrop County:

Jacob C. Higgins; Born November 2, 1815; Died October 30, 1895.

Caroline C. Higgins; Born June 29, 1836; Died September 5, 1902.

Mary A. Miley; Born In South Carolina In 1832; Died In 1875.

Jesse Haldeman, A Native Of Kentucky; Emigrated To Texas In 1832; Died July 26, 1850, In His 49th Year.

Campbell Taylor; Born 1812, Died In 1886.

Harriet Taylor, Wife, Born 1818 D. 1911.

Joseph Glover, Born Nashville, Tennessee In 1816; Died 1891.

Mary Calista Taylor, His Wife; Born In Albany, N. Y. In 1829.

John Hearn; Born 1816; Died 1899.

Mxria Heran; Born 1831; Died 1914.

Mahala P. Simmons, Nee Blakey; Born In Kentucky, May 9, 1805; Died May 24, 1878.

V. C. Powell; Born April 21, 1830; Died September 30, 1899.

Sarah H. Powell, Wife; Born October 22, 1839; Died October 5, 1911.

Col. M. Thompson, Of Washington, D. C, Born 1810; Died 1891.

C. B. Maynard; Born 1827; Died 1889.

Col. James M. Young, Born Loudon, County, W. Virginia, September 25, 1807 And Died October 9, 1880.

Mark H. Young, Born In Franklin County, Tennessee, July 15, 1839; Died April 3, 1913.

Edwin Goodman; Born December 21, 1811; Died June 15, 1887.

Mrs. Eliza Doggett Goodman, Wife; Born In Marlborough, England, May 11th, 1822; Died March 16, 1909.

G.W. . (Wash) Jones; Born September 5th, 1828; Died July 11, 1903.

John P. Jones; Born February 27, 1828, Died January 3, 1879.

Ladora Ann Jones, Wife, Born In 1837; Died August 31, 1903.

Talitha Redding Jones; Born 1848; Died 1903.

Sgt. James I. Redding; Terrell's Regiment, C. S. A. (Marker, No Date.)

Elizabeth A. Leseuer; Born 1835; 4 Died 1908.

Nelson Burch, Born September 17, 1804; Died November 13, 1886.

Mrs. E. D. Burch, Wife; Born March 26, 1824; Died January 26, 1881.

James L. Hendenburg; Born On Long Island, January 30, 1790; Died In Bastrop, February, 1862.

Constant N. Hall; Born In Wallingford Conn., August 8, 1818; Died In Austin, Texas. (Stone Broken,Date Illegible).

J. C. Balsem; Born May 7, 1810; Died June 27, 1873.

A. Knittel; Born August 7, 1824; Died October 17, 1904, In Bastrop Co., Texas.

I. Knittel  (Wife Of A. Knittel) ; Born 1828; Died 1910.

John L. Foster; Born In 1797; Died Feb. 17, 18782. (Monument Erected By Son, C. M. Foster.

James R. Nichols; Born In Orange County, Virginia, June 16, 1826; Died At Giddings, Texas, December 29, 1887.

Able Haines; Born 1821; Died 1917.

Mary Haines, Wife; Born 1848; Died 1931.

Blanche Garwood, Wife Of Paul D. Page; Born In 1874; Died 1911.

Pauline Mitchell, Only Daughter Of Hiram I. Garwood And Hettie Page; Born In 1892; Died 1894.

J. Schill; Born September 28, 1847; Died December 7, 1916.

Marie Schill, Wife; Born September 8th,1849; Died Jan. 7, 1925.

J. W. Fitzwillam; Born March 10, 1837; Died May 19, 1893.

Mrs. Hancy Fitzwillam, Wife, Born In Washington County, Arkansas In 1835; Died At Baatrop, June 10th, 1887,

John S. Wilson; Born January 6, 1839; Died February 89, 1904.

Laura S. Wilson, Wife, Died December 1, 1929.

J. A. Wilson; Born October, 1845; Died April 11, 1916.

J. S. Smith; Born February 11, 1809 D. October 18, 1891.

Nancy Olive, Born In Wake County, R. G. October 11, 1811; Died April 19th. 1882.

J. E. Olive, Born 1808; Died 1860.

L. W. Olive; Born October 15, 1849;Died November 5, 1925.

J. E. Olive.

Belinda Olive.

Dorothy Olive Wilbarger

James Harvey Wilbarger, (No Dates).

B. C. Duval; Born 1848; Died 1907.

J. C. Duval; Born November 10, 1816;And Died October 15, 1886.

M. B. Duval; Born August 1, 1827; Died January 2, 1890.

J. W. Duval; Born November 6, 1858; Died June 16, 1924.

(All Buried On Same Plot, Of Course)

Antoh Jung, Born In Friedland, Germany, In 1817; Died 1902.

Anna Jung, Born Reichenberg,  Germany In 1821; Died 1911.

(Name Generally Pronounced Young)

Christian Auguste Starces; Born October 17, 1793; Died June 10,1883.

Charles Brieger; Born May 9, 1835; Died May 10, 1910.

Marie Brieger, Wife; Born December 16th, 1844; Died November 7, 1901.

Margaret Chambers; Born October 28, 1810 And Died January 9, 1897.

Nannie Eastland; Born January 29th,1844; Died December 21, 1918.

J. M. Holt; Born January 6, 1870; Died December 26, 1906.

Mattie E. Bolt; Bom August 30, 1874; Died July 3, 1916.

Edward Blakey Burleson; Born July 28th, 1838; Died March 8, 1917.

Margaret A. Dorh Burleson; Born November 25, 1842; Died April 25, 1925.

James I. Miller; Born March 7, 1803;Died April 20, 1881; Emigrated To Texas In 1876.

Elizabeth Miller; Born October 1, 1804; Died April 5, 1882.

Charles A., Oldest Son Of A. J. And J.P. Batts; Born August 10, 1861; Died April 22, 1879.

Nannie Turner; Died June 18, 1901, Aged 66 Years.

Charles T. Walker; Born March 15, 1866; Died January 30, 1930.

Nannie B. Walker ; Born September 29th, 1878.

Capt. James S. Jones; Born December 8th 1873; Died Nov. 27, 1924.

Jeff M. Osborn; Born March 31, 1861; And Died November 30, 1916.

James E. Wallace; Born January 10, 1819; Died November 4, 1853.

Lucy A. Moss, Wife Of J. H. Muse, Born November 29, 1868; Died March 4th, 1894

Kelber Miller Trigg; Born October 7,1849.

Mary Hubbard Trigg; Born September 16th 1856; Died September 3, 1983.

Thomas E. Moore; Born November 8, 1845; Died January 27, 1927.

Olina Grady Moore (Wife Of Thomas E ); Born January 9, 1650; Died May 3rd, 1938.

R. H. Grimes; Born October 12, 1814;Died December 28, 1863.

N. A. Morris; Born July 22, 1829; Died June 23, 1898.

A. J. Batts; Born April 19, 1831; Died August 3, 1901.

Levis Hutchison Smith, Son Of Rev. W.A. And A. H. Smith; Born October 20th, 1848; Died July 5, 1865.

Thomas J. Trigg; Born July 30, 1847; D. Feb. 26, 1912.

W. J. Cain; Born February 2, 1830; Died November 4, 1874.

Bettie H. Cain, Wife; Born March 27,1835,

Thomas C. Cain; Born Huntsville, Alabama November 10, 1837; Died February 22, 1911.

Mary Elizabeth Cain, Wife; Born In Athens, Alabama, March 31, 1842; Died November 29, 1907.

Rufus A. Green; Born December 16, 1845; Died April 27, 1898.

Sue Anna Trigg, Wife; Born April 30th, 1845; Died December 24, 1911.

William N. Gibson; Born June 27, 1868; Died November 16, 1930.

Chester Erhard; Born March 31, 1854;Died April 10, 1929.

Mary Trigg (His Wife); Born In 1656;And Died 1917.

John H. Jenkins, Sr.; Born September 16, 1822; Died November 30, 1890.

Mary Jane Jenkins (Wife); Born In 1833; Died In 1907.

H. P. Luckett, M. D.; Born May 27, 1847; Died October 7, 1923.

Frances T. Luckett, Wife; Born March 12, 1849; Died February 2, 1930.

Ambrose B. Hemphill; Born June 23, 1824; Died January 10, 1879.

Martha E. Hemphill (Wife); Born April 4, 1833; Died June 27, 1916.

Andrew L. Hemphill, Born July 1, 1863; Died June 12, 1871.

Daniel P. Holland, Born May 22, 1840,And Died November 24, 1934.

Leilah T. Holland (Wife); Born June 9th, 1868.

Sam Scott Sayers; Born 1867; Died 1938.

Dot Mclavt (Wife) Born 1877; Died 1901.

Dr. David Sayers; Born May 27, 1811;And Died July 2, 1886.

Ada, (Wife Of Joseph D. Sayers) Born On September 19, 1846; Married March 5, 1868; Died February 25, 1871.

J. C. Buchanan; Born In The Year 1828; Died In 1900.

Benjamin D. Orgain, Born Paris, Tennessee, Sept. 10, 1843; Died February 18, 1917.

Dru J. Orgain, Born Pulaski, Tennessee, July 2,1843; Died July 9, 1931.

Richard B. Wilkes; Born 1851; Died 1932.

Elizabeth J. Wilkes (Wife) Born In 1853; Died In 1936.

Where Some Of These Folks Came From

It Is Interesting To Note That These Inscriptions Inform Us Positively Where Some Of These Families Came From To Texas:
That The Halderman Family Came From Kentucky.
That Joseph Glover Was From Nashville, Tennessee.
That The Mark Young Family Came From Franklin, Tennessee, To Texas.
That The Nichols Family Was From Orange County, Virginia.
That The Fitzwilllams Family Was From Washington County, Arkansas.
That The Olive Family One From Wake County, North Caroline.
That The Cain Family, Long Prominent In Bastrop    - They Ran The Old Bastrop Advertiser - Were From Huntsville, Alabama
That The Orgain Family Came To Texas, From Paris, Tennessee, Where The Writer Found The Old Organ Lot In The Presbyterian Cemetary Years Ago.
We Know, Of Course, From Other Sources That Gov. Sayers' Family Came To Texas From Mississippi; 
That The Burlesons Were From Tennessee, North Carolina And North Alabama, Variously;
That The Wilbargers Came From North Carolina, But We Are Not Sure Where The Duval Famlly Of Bastrop Came From.

These Additional Tombstone Inscriptions From The Bastrop Cemetery Throw Some Light On The Connections
Of The Batts Family With The Triggs, Rice And Lynn Families:

William A. Trigg Was Born Nov. 27, 1863 And Died September 21, 1910, At Hills Prairie.
Julia K. Batts, Trigg; Was Born At Bastrop, Texas, May 19, 1868, And Died In 1925.
Robert Gaines Rice Was Born In Rockingham County. Virginia, June 30, 1814.
Martha Rice, (Nee) Lynn Was Born In Kentucky, February 18, 1813, And Died June 24, 1890.

From The Above Tombstone Records It Is Easy To Deduce Without Much Fear Of Being Wrong, That Robert Gaines Rice,
Born In Rockingham County, Virginia, Was The Father Of Julia A. Rice, Who Married Andrew Jackson Batts In Bastrop
County, Texas, On July 5, 1560; That Robert Gaines Rice Moved To Kentucky  When A Boy Or A Young Man, And There Married Martha Lynn;
Which Explains Why Judge Robert Lynn Batts Was So Named, After His Maternal Grandfather And Grandmother.

It Is Also Plain, From The Two Other Tombstone Inscriptions.
That Andrew Jackson Batts Was The Father Of Julia K. Batts, Born In Bastrop, May 19, 1868,
And That She  Married William A. Trigg, And That Mrs. Trigg Was Therefore The
Sister Of Judge Robert Lynn Batts; And That Julia, His Wife Was Named For Her Mother Julia A. Rice.


Judge R. L. Batts, Of Course. Was The Distinguished Federal District And Circuit Judge,
Whose Career Began In Bastrop, And Whose Life Was Spent,
After He Entered The Law Practice, In Broader Fields Than The Little Town Of Bastrop Could, Of Itself, Furnish.

Source: Austin Colony Pioneers
Transcribed And Contributed to Genealogy Trails
By Friends For Free Genealogy

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