Remley-Hillebrand Cemetery
Port Neches, Jefferson County, Texas, USA
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Port Neches, Texas 77651 United StatesCoordinates: 29.99434, -93.94898 - Cemetery ID:
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Smith's Bluff and Grigsby's Bluff,Texas: Two German Immigrant Communities of Jefferson County, Texas, 1850-1880, he tells of recalling this cemetery and seeing about twenty graves within it.
Not wanting to name the "guilty parties", Mr. Block left us with the following description:
"There are at least two extinct cemeteries at Port Neches that the writer can recall. One with about twenty graves was located on the southeast corner of the intersection of Rachford and Dearing Streets on land currently occupied by a shell company. That cemetery site was deeded in perpetuity to the State of Texas more than a century ago, as the deed records reveal, but was maliciously bulldozed in 1945 by persons the writer prefers not to name. While the writer was still a soldier, home on leave, in 1946, he saw the site when it had been freshly bulldozed, and broken tombstones were still flattened and above ground. An old man named Palmer, who lived in the last house on Rachford Street, showed me a broken tombstone for Mary Moseley Hillebrand, wife of Lastie Hillebrand, who died in childbirth at age 20 in 1860. Her name is listed in the county mortality census of that year. The cemetery was called the Remley-Hillebrand Cemetery."
In another article posted in 2001 on a Rootsweb mailing list, Mr. Block writes of this cemetery, "About 20 years ago, a concrete foundation was poured across the entire cemetery lot and a metal building was built above the foundation."
In his article:
Smith's Bluff and Grigsby's Bluff,Texas: Two German Immigrant Communities of Jefferson County, Texas, 1850-1880, he tells of recalling this cemetery and seeing about twenty graves within it.
Not wanting to name the "guilty parties", Mr. Block left us with the following description:
"There are at least two extinct cemeteries at Port Neches that the writer can recall. One with about twenty graves was located on the southeast corner of the intersection of Rachford and Dearing Streets on land currently occupied by a shell company. That cemetery site was deeded in perpetuity to the State of Texas more than a century ago, as the deed records reveal, but was maliciously bulldozed in 1945 by persons the writer prefers not to name. While the writer was still a soldier, home on leave, in 1946, he saw the site when it had been freshly bulldozed, and broken tombstones were still flattened and above ground. An old man named Palmer, who lived in the last house on Rachford Street, showed me a broken tombstone for Mary Moseley Hillebrand, wife of Lastie Hillebrand, who died in childbirth at age 20 in 1860. Her name is listed in the county mortality census of that year. The cemetery was called the Remley-Hillebrand Cemetery."
In another article posted in 2001 on a Rootsweb mailing list, Mr. Block writes of this cemetery, "About 20 years ago, a concrete foundation was poured across the entire cemetery lot and a metal building was built above the foundation."
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Port Neches, Jefferson County, Texas, USA
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Port Neches, Jefferson County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials3
- Percent photographed67%
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Port Neches, Jefferson County, Texas, USA
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Port Neches, Jefferson County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials4
- Percent photographed75%
- Percent with GPS75%
- Added: 6 Apr 2008
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2256323
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