Texas Jay
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One of my old messages from my now-closed Bloody Bill Anderson Mystery group on Yahoo. A friend and I discovered two sandstone grave markers on some property we had permission to metal detect about 1980. They were in a location that matched that given for Brownwood's Boot Hill by Tevis Clyde Smith in the excerpt below. When I returned to the site in 2007, the property had changed ownership and the old markers were gone! I still remember the location, however, but the site of the gravestones is now covered by a gravel road. I have permission to detect the property so I may give my dowsing abilities a trial and see if I can get a reading of any bodies buried there someday.
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From: "In The Life And Lives Of Brown County People", Book Ten,
March 1993, page 98.
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BOOT HILL CEMETERY
"This cemetery is located in the city limits of Brownwood on Milton
Street, near the Adams branch. Today (1993) there are no signs that
the location was once a cemetery at the turn of the century.
In "From the Memories of Men by Tevis Clyde Smith, Jr.; he
recorded: 'The old cemetery was on the banks of the slough, just east
of the Milton Street home which Greenleaf Fisk built. I have been
told that every man buried there died with his boots on. Charlie
Webb was one of those buried in the old cemetery. He was deputy
sheriff at the time he was killed by John Wesley Hardin, who shot him
in Comanche, where Webb had gone to see his sweetheart'.
There are no documents to tell us what happened to the Boot Hill
Cemetery. From the memories of men we do know a little about what
happened. The people were unhappy with its location for the Adams
Branch sometimes overflowed into the cemetery. The date that some of
the families moved the bodies to the Greenleaf Cemetery is not
available, but there were some graves left and the mounds were
visible for a number of years. Mr. T.C. Smith tells that Charlie
Webb was buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery, and this may be true,
however, his marker stands in the older part of the Greenleaf
Cemetery in 1993. Perhaps he was buried in the little cemetery and
his remains were moved by some of the citizens of Brownwood."
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~Jay~
Attached is a photo I took of Charlie Webb's historical plaque at Greenleaf Cemetery in 2013.
***
From: "In The Life And Lives Of Brown County People", Book Ten,
March 1993, page 98.
***
BOOT HILL CEMETERY
"This cemetery is located in the city limits of Brownwood on Milton
Street, near the Adams branch. Today (1993) there are no signs that
the location was once a cemetery at the turn of the century.
In "From the Memories of Men by Tevis Clyde Smith, Jr.; he
recorded: 'The old cemetery was on the banks of the slough, just east
of the Milton Street home which Greenleaf Fisk built. I have been
told that every man buried there died with his boots on. Charlie
Webb was one of those buried in the old cemetery. He was deputy
sheriff at the time he was killed by John Wesley Hardin, who shot him
in Comanche, where Webb had gone to see his sweetheart'.
There are no documents to tell us what happened to the Boot Hill
Cemetery. From the memories of men we do know a little about what
happened. The people were unhappy with its location for the Adams
Branch sometimes overflowed into the cemetery. The date that some of
the families moved the bodies to the Greenleaf Cemetery is not
available, but there were some graves left and the mounds were
visible for a number of years. Mr. T.C. Smith tells that Charlie
Webb was buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery, and this may be true,
however, his marker stands in the older part of the Greenleaf
Cemetery in 1993. Perhaps he was buried in the little cemetery and
his remains were moved by some of the citizens of Brownwood."
***
~Jay~
Attached is a photo I took of Charlie Webb's historical plaque at Greenleaf Cemetery in 2013.
