Jenelle, my sister, is into genealogy. She has information on our grandfather’s ancestors and is now looking up our grandmother’s ancestors. When grandmother was about 90 years old she went to Lexington, TX and found her grandfather’s grave site. This cemetery is located in a pasture. Since Jenelle and John were coming to Dallas, Texas for the OSU /TCU football game, Jenelle decided that she and I could go on a trip to Lexington (near Austin, TX) and find the cemetery and take pictures of the grave site. Jenelle knew what highway it was on and about how far it was from town.
Here is a sign on the highway.
This is the entrance to the pasture you must drive in to arrive at the cemetery. We chose to park our car on the side of the road and walk even though we didn’t know how far we would have to walk. I grabbed a bottle of water and my camera and off we went.
We walked about 1/2 mile and saw the cemetery. The gate was tied with rope so we chose to climb over it, a skill we learned growing up on the farm.
The cemetery was not real large so we decided to divide up the cemetery between the 2 of us to look for the grave site. I went to the end on one side and Jenelle went to the other side. We were looking for the last name of Barnhill, my grandmother’s maiden name. It was about 100 degrees so we walked fairly fast going down the rows of graves.
I found it after going down 4 rows of graves.
This was the grave we had driven to Lexington, TX to find. It read Wm Barnhill died Feb 20, 1894 Aged 75 years. (Click Photo to enlarge.)
Right next to it was another grave that read Joseph, son of TJ and M F Barnhill, Born Sept 7, 1892, Died Dec 23, 1893. This was our Grandmother’s little brother who lived almost a year and half.
With the temperature over 100 degree we were hot and ready to get back in the air conditioned car. Bringing the drinking water turned out to be a great idea! As we were getting ready to climb over the fence we noticed a small gate close to the grave sites.
Look it opens!!!!!!!! No more climbing over fences looking for dead bodies!!!!.
Grandmother found these grave sites when she was about 90 years old. We could just see Grandmother doing the same thing we did as she was a very spunky lady.
