willis2.htm

This compilation of records was ascertained by comparing the six volumes of Montgomery County Cemeteries (published by the Montgomery County Genealogical & Historical Society, Inc. surveyed by Oveta & Horace Wright in 1978, and all extant Montgomery county Texas Funeral Homes records.

Funeral Home records consulted (also published by the MCG&HS) are referred to in these records are referred to as:

The number following the letter gives the volume number and the number following: _ is the page number.

These are unmarked graves as of 1978. These graves could have been overlooked by the cemetery surveyors or the grave markers may have been broken or unreadable. It is also possible that recorders misread the marker.

There are many early unmarked graves in Montgomery County. Private cemeteries have been lost forever. The only available information as to where a person was buried is the funeral home records, and it is not altogether impossible that errors occurred in recording the information in the funeral home records. All the above funeral homes are out of business except Metcalf's and all of their records were lost in the fire in 1997.

If a researcher is aware of an unmarked grave, please send the information to the MCG&HS or email Jane Keppler.

COMMANDER, GEORGE WASHINGTON (see also Washington) alias EVANS, CECIL R. -Aug 19, 1914-Feb 15, 1951 Ref: M 5:14

EVANS, CECIL R. alias: COMMANDER, GEORGE WASHINGTON Aug 19, 1914-Feb 15, 1951 Ref: M 5:14

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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Unmarked Graves of Montgomery County Texas