Hood County Genealogical
Society
Kristenstad Cemetery
FM 167 south from Acton to Pecan Plantation
Subdivision. (Necessary to obtain permission from front office to enter). South
(left) on Montecello Drive through entire subdivision until reaching Pecan
Plantation Fire & EMS. Left (east) on dirt road opposite firestation
(private entrance to Leonard Bend Pecan Farm). Follow Road .6 miles. Cemetery
is unmarked and impossible to find without the farm foreman. It is located in
the pecan grove. The cemetery site is due south from the private dirt road
about 100 yards north of the subdvision fenceline. Check in at the farm
headquarters before attempting to locate this site because it is on private
property. 3297-242. |
Overall
view of location of Kristenstad Cemetery. The missing pecan trees is the main
evidence that a cemetery is located here. According to a longtime employee of the
Leonard Bend Pecan Farm there was once a battered, illegible, metal funeral
home marker and two small graves outlined by marbles - all now vanished.
The
following information on burials was related to Margaret & Royce Harber by
Lester George Maddox
***See
Comments by Gene Berryman.
Rosie Pearl and Thomas
Patton, still born twins
of Lester George Maddox and
Bertie Lucil (Condel) Maddox
died 1937
The father of Joe Floss
No dates
A Mr. Turner
No dates
Comments
RE;
KRISTENSTAD CEMETARY BURIALS.
When
the Harbers talked with Lester George Maddox he was suffering from Alzimers, he
had a niece
named
Rosie Pearl (Kennemer) but not a daughter. I talked with his son George, and he
recalls talk
of
children being buried but they were not twins and knows of no Rosie Pearl in
his family.
Lester
Maddox married Bertie Lucille COGDILL 1 Sep 1934. I found 2 births at the
Hood County
Clerks
office they were: (1) Thomas Patton Maddox, still born on 23 Aug 1935,
Kristenstad, Hood,
Texas,
I could not find a death certificate, (2) Vanla Pearl Maddox, still born 27
April 1938, Hood, Texas
there
is also a death certificate for her. I believe these are the 2 children
hee was refering to and were
buried
in Kristenstad Cemetery. The rest of their children were born in Johnson,
County. Mrs Maddox
died
26 Mar 1992.
Mr.
Maddox died 1 April 2005, I went the the visitation where I met his twin
sisters, Betty and Billy. I
talked
with Betty and she said there were no twins. She had seen a baby in a jar with
fluid in it (not sure
if
1 or both), my wife was told as a child that children were placed in jars and
buried (she is a niece of
Lester
and Bertie). I believe these are the two childred buried in the
Kristenstad Cemetery. If I can be
of
further assistance please contact me.
REGARDS,
Gene Berryman
gene@itexas.net>
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