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Riggs Family Cemetery Liberty County
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This is a small family cemetery few miles
south of Cleveland, Liberty Co., Texas, between North and South bound lanes of
Hwy 59, north of East Fork, San Jacinto River. It is fenced and has
several large trees and shrubs around it. I (jhs) suspect that it is in the town
of Gladstell, Texas. Several of the people (Minnie S. Riggs and Johnothan
Blasdell) buried there on
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start Texas
Deaths show the place of burial in the town of Gladstell. Walter Scott Riggs
Death Certificate #50849 shows he was buried in Riggs Cemetery, Cleveland,
Texas.
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From the Handbook of Texas Online:
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GLADSTELL, TEXAS. Gladstell was on the Houston,
East and West Texas Railway between Cleveland and the East Fork of the San
Jacinto River in northwestern Liberty County. The community was named for
Gladys and Estell Grogan, the daughters of George and Will Grogan, and was
the site of the Grogan sawmill. The Gladstell post office opened in 1913.
During the 1920s the mill town reported a population of some 500. The
clearing of available timber and the consolidation of many of the smaller
sawmills in East Texas probably led to Gladstell's decline. The community
was not named on a 1976 topographical map of the area, though the map showed
a few buildings at the site.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Miriam Partlow, Liberty, Liberty County, and the Atascosito
District (Austin: Pemberton, 1974). |
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Robert Wooster
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Photos of Riggs Family
Cemetery
by
Jane Keppler
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Gate to Riggs Family Cemetery
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Riggs Family Cemetery: See Highway 59 in
the Background
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Mary Frances Blasdell
1903 – 1904
Jonathan
Hiram Blasdell
1864 – 1922
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Jesse Marlin Riggs
Apr 5, 1915 –
May 28, 1989
Mae Opaline
Riggs
May 3, 1923 –
Apr 21, 1996
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In Remembrance
Lillian C. Riggs
Feb 27, 1908 – Oct 10, 1989
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Lizzie Riggs
wife of Walter S. Riggs
Born Nov 19, 1876
Died Mar 20, 1916
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Minnie Riggs
1901 – 1920
(Death Certificate #35509 shows
Born Jan 30, 1901
Died Nov 26, 1920)
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Virginia Riggs
1898 – 1900
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