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Lewis Plantation Cemetery
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Lewis Plantation Cemetery is located in Willis Texas on FM1097 where the Gulf States Utilities Lewis Creek Power 1 plant is today. Be sure to take a look at the
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| From: Dawson | |
| Date: 09/15/05 16:38:53 | |
| To: relppek | |
| Subject: a short note after the one I just sent to you | |
| Jane, | |
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I am trying to find out who all is buried in the
first plat or section, the oldest one, of the Willis Cemetery. I want to be
buried there and we are trying to establish who is buried under unmarked
spaces. The caretaker, Mr. Paddock and I have spoken about my buying plots for
my husband and myself there in the first section but he says that there is no
record of who is buried in that 1st section. I talked with Jerry Creighton, my
cousin, and you probably remember him. He has been at the Darden,
Creighton, Law firm there on Phillips Street for as long as I can remember.
He is about 65 to 70, about like my husband who is 65. He does not know who
all is buried there but he said if he had any say about it that we could be
buried in any of the spaces empty near my Great Grandfathers. They are right
there together and I would love to be there near them. I know that my two
Great Grandfathers are buried there: John McClanahan Lewis, Jr. died
1909, alongside his son Phillip Lewis and Phillip's wife Beulah Wooldridge
Lewis. That is Mother's Mothers' Father. His father was buried, along
with wife Mary , out at the old
Lewis
Plantation on FM 1097 where the Lewis Creek Power plant is today ... the
water covered the graves. Mother and I went there in 1964 before the water
came in and tried to find the headstones as she had remembered them under the
Cedar trees. Mr. Cluxton who lived there at the time helped her and they
talked along time about the old families, the Ingletts across the way, etc. |
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Then, directly behind the Lewis grave is an
old Iron fence surrounding the graves of Mother's father's father Clinton Bybee and his second wife, Mollie. Clinton married her after his first wife
Rachel Davidson Bybee, Mother's true Grandmother on her paternal side, and
sister to Mollie, had passed away in KY before the whole family moved to
Willis to grow tobacco. In KY, Clinton and Rachel had Charlie Bybee-who was
Mother's father, as well as Aunt Sallie Bybee who married El Darden, and then
Aunt May who married Alf Morris and had four daughters who most all lived in
Conroe. I was close to all those cousins, Esther May Creighton, Bessie Morris
Virginia Metzger and Emily ? (forget her last name. Bessie Morris Gray just
passed away last year. Then, Clinton and Mollie Bybee had Joseph David
Bybee, Rachel bybee, Paul Bybee and Benora Bybee. Only Benora was born in Willis in late 1800's, all the others in KY< Barren County. |
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So, if you can guide me to a page or information
you may know of concerning this I would truly be appreciative. Mary Peoples
did not know and I am not well enough to drive or go to Conroe Library and do
the research. Any direction you can send in me would be helpful. I know I
want to be buried there and want to pay for the plots now, but it may have to
be plots in the section on the other side of the drive (to the South of that
first section. I believe Mr. Paddock told me they are starting to bury people
there now. Otherwise, if I can get spaces next to the graves in the section
to the right as you go on down the length of the cemetery. either side of
that first section. |
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| Well, I appreciate any help you can give me. | |
| Thanks, Marilyn Dawson | |
| edawson8527@consolidated.net | |
| address: 7195 State Hwy 75 South | |
| Huntsville, TX 77340 | |
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