Riggs Family Cemetery Liberty County Texas

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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.
 

From the Handbook of Texas Online:

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).

Robert Wooster
 

Photos of Riggs Family Cemetery
by Jane Keppler
 

Gate to Riggs Family Cemetery
 

Riggs Family Cemetery: See Highway 59 in the Background
 

Mary Frances Blasdell
1903 – 1904

Jonathan Hiram Blasdell
1864 – 1922
 

Jesse Marlin Riggs
Apr 5, 1915 – May 28, 1989

Mae Opaline Riggs
May 3, 1923 – Apr 21, 1996
 

In Remembrance
Lillian C. Riggs
Feb 27, 1908 – Oct 10, 1989
 

Lizzie Riggs
wife of Walter S. Riggs
Born Nov 19, 1876
Died Mar 20, 1916
 

Minnie Riggs
1901 – 1920
(Death Certificate #35509 shows
Born Jan 30, 1901
Died Nov 26, 1920)
 

Virginia Riggs
1898 – 1900

 

Transcription of Riggs Family Cemetery
by William T. Beauregard