Old Troy, Texas Summary
Bell County, Texas was established in or about 1850. There was an Elm Creek post office on the site from 1854 to 1876. The area was known to be an extremely fertile area and well suited for farming. This is the reason so many migrated to the area. One of the frontier towns that were a result of migration was the little town of Troy. Originally Troy was nothing more than a stage coach stop between Waco, Texas and Salado, Texas in route to Austin, Texas. Around the 1880s the railroad was built from the North to South and a railroad stations was built two miles south of then Troy. Most of the citizens moved to the New Troy but some refused to leave Old Troy and for a time Old Troy and New Troy coexisted. As the stagecoach was being phased out and the iron horse becoming evermore popular forced the little town of Troy to relocate slightly southward to the location where Troy now sits along Interstate 35. The "Old Troy" completely disappeared by 1927. The last standing structure there was the old one room school. It was still used until 1903 and had two teachers. The old school was taken down 1973.No structure stands today. The only evidence that suggest there was ever an Old Troy in an abandoned and badly overgrown cemetery that has about 30 marked graves and at least that many and probably more grave that are unknown or lost. Sadly there is no photo or written history of the original Troy, Texas so records do not exist.
The Old Troy Cemetery is difficult to locate, a hostile place due to it being so badly overgrown not to mention it sits on private property.
Regrettably our Grandmother Martha Angeline (Ledbetter) Todd completed her life I this place at this time. The story is that Martha was a person of delicate health. William and Martha heard that the area here was less demanding than in Arkansas where they were. They decided to relocate. Sadly, when the men were returning from Waco in the wagon, a tornado struck the house that Martha was living in. She fell unconscious at the moment of impact and never regained consciousness.
I have made several attempts to locate Martha Angeline (Ledbetter) Todd's grave. I not only could not locate her grave I could not even find the cemetery. As stated previously no records were kept so no one absolutely knows where she is however when one does just a little research it is clear that in Old Troy there was but one cemetery. The dates on the headstones in this forgotten cemetery range from the 1870s to 1920s. Martha Angeline died in 1887. I have concluded that she must be here unless she was buried on private property which is unlikely since she and William did not own property. I had wished to locate her grave but as it turned out was lucky to have located the cemetery at all. Thanks to modern Global Positioning System technology (at least by today's standards) the old cemetery was found.
Randall Woodrow Todd Jr.
2 Great Grandson
12/08/2006
Bell County, Texas was established in or about 1850. There was an Elm Creek post office on the site from 1854 to 1876. The area was known to be an extremely fertile area and well suited for farming. This is the reason so many migrated to the area. One of the frontier towns that were a result of migration was the little town of Troy. Originally Troy was nothing more than a stage coach stop between Waco, Texas and Salado, Texas in route to Austin, Texas. Around the 1880s the railroad was built from the North to South and a railroad stations was built two miles south of then Troy. Most of the citizens moved to the New Troy but some refused to leave Old Troy and for a time Old Troy and New Troy coexisted. As the stagecoach was being phased out and the iron horse becoming evermore popular forced the little town of Troy to relocate slightly southward to the location where Troy now sits along Interstate 35. The "Old Troy" completely disappeared by 1927. The last standing structure there was the old one room school. It was still used until 1903 and had two teachers. The old school was taken down 1973.No structure stands today. The only evidence that suggest there was ever an Old Troy in an abandoned and badly overgrown cemetery that has about 30 marked graves and at least that many and probably more grave that are unknown or lost. Sadly there is no photo or written history of the original Troy, Texas so records do not exist.
The Old Troy Cemetery is difficult to locate, a hostile place due to it being so badly overgrown not to mention it sits on private property.
Regrettably our Grandmother Martha Angeline (Ledbetter) Todd completed her life I this place at this time. The story is that Martha was a person of delicate health. William and Martha heard that the area here was less demanding than in Arkansas where they were. They decided to relocate. Sadly, when the men were returning from Waco in the wagon, a tornado struck the house that Martha was living in. She fell unconscious at the moment of impact and never regained consciousness.
I have made several attempts to locate Martha Angeline (Ledbetter) Todd's grave. I not only could not locate her grave I could not even find the cemetery. As stated previously no records were kept so no one absolutely knows where she is however when one does just a little research it is clear that in Old Troy there was but one cemetery. The dates on the headstones in this forgotten cemetery range from the 1870s to 1920s. Martha Angeline died in 1887. I have concluded that she must be here unless she was buried on private property which is unlikely since she and William did not own property. I had wished to locate her grave but as it turned out was lucky to have located the cemetery at all. Thanks to modern Global Positioning System technology (at least by today's standards) the old cemetery was found.
Randall Woodrow Todd Jr.
2 Great Grandson
12/08/2006
Old Troy, Texas Summary
Bell County, Texas was established in or about 1850. There was an Elm Creek post office on the site from 1854 to 1876. The area was known to be an extremely fertile area and well suited for farming. This is the reason so many migrated to the area. One of the frontier towns that were a result of migration was the little town of Troy. Originally Troy was nothing more than a stage coach stop between Waco, Texas and Salado, Texas in route to Austin, Texas. Around the 1880s the railroad was built from the North to South and a railroad stations was built two miles south of then Troy. Most of the citizens moved to the New Troy but some refused to leave Old Troy and for a time Old Troy and New Troy coexisted. As the stagecoach was being phased out and the iron horse becoming evermore popular forced the little town of Troy to relocate slightly southward to the location where Troy now sits along Interstate 35. The "Old Troy" completely disappeared by 1927. The last standing structure there was the old one room school. It was still used until 1903 and had two teachers. The old school was taken down 1973.No structure stands today. The only evidence that suggest there was ever an Old Troy in an abandoned and badly overgrown cemetery that has about 30 marked graves and at least that many and probably more grave that are unknown or lost. Sadly there is no photo or written history of the original Troy, Texas so records do not exist.
The Old Troy Cemetery is difficult to locate, a hostile place due to it being so badly overgrown not to mention it sits on private property.
Regrettably our Grandmother Martha Angeline (Ledbetter) Todd completed her life I this place at this time. The story is that Martha was a person of delicate health. William and Martha heard that the area here was less demanding than in Arkansas where they were. They decided to relocate. Sadly, when the men were returning from Waco in the wagon, a tornado struck the house that Martha was living in. She fell unconscious at the moment of impact and never regained consciousness.
I have made several attempts to locate Martha Angeline (Ledbetter) Todd's grave. I not only could not locate her grave I could not even find the cemetery. As stated previously no records were kept so no one absolutely knows where she is however when one does just a little research it is clear that in Old Troy there was but one cemetery. The dates on the headstones in this forgotten cemetery range from the 1870s to 1920s. Martha Angeline died in 1887. I have concluded that she must be here unless she was buried on private property which is unlikely since she and William did not own property. I had wished to locate her grave but as it turned out was lucky to have located the cemetery at all. Thanks to modern Global Positioning System technology (at least by today's standards) the old cemetery was found.
Randall Woodrow Todd Jr.
2 Great Grandson
12/08/2006
Bell County, Texas was established in or about 1850. There was an Elm Creek post office on the site from 1854 to 1876. The area was known to be an extremely fertile area and well suited for farming. This is the reason so many migrated to the area. One of the frontier towns that were a result of migration was the little town of Troy. Originally Troy was nothing more than a stage coach stop between Waco, Texas and Salado, Texas in route to Austin, Texas. Around the 1880s the railroad was built from the North to South and a railroad stations was built two miles south of then Troy. Most of the citizens moved to the New Troy but some refused to leave Old Troy and for a time Old Troy and New Troy coexisted. As the stagecoach was being phased out and the iron horse becoming evermore popular forced the little town of Troy to relocate slightly southward to the location where Troy now sits along Interstate 35. The "Old Troy" completely disappeared by 1927. The last standing structure there was the old one room school. It was still used until 1903 and had two teachers. The old school was taken down 1973.No structure stands today. The only evidence that suggest there was ever an Old Troy in an abandoned and badly overgrown cemetery that has about 30 marked graves and at least that many and probably more grave that are unknown or lost. Sadly there is no photo or written history of the original Troy, Texas so records do not exist.
The Old Troy Cemetery is difficult to locate, a hostile place due to it being so badly overgrown not to mention it sits on private property.
Regrettably our Grandmother Martha Angeline (Ledbetter) Todd completed her life I this place at this time. The story is that Martha was a person of delicate health. William and Martha heard that the area here was less demanding than in Arkansas where they were. They decided to relocate. Sadly, when the men were returning from Waco in the wagon, a tornado struck the house that Martha was living in. She fell unconscious at the moment of impact and never regained consciousness.
I have made several attempts to locate Martha Angeline (Ledbetter) Todd's grave. I not only could not locate her grave I could not even find the cemetery. As stated previously no records were kept so no one absolutely knows where she is however when one does just a little research it is clear that in Old Troy there was but one cemetery. The dates on the headstones in this forgotten cemetery range from the 1870s to 1920s. Martha Angeline died in 1887. I have concluded that she must be here unless she was buried on private property which is unlikely since she and William did not own property. I had wished to locate her grave but as it turned out was lucky to have located the cemetery at all. Thanks to modern Global Positioning System technology (at least by today's standards) the old cemetery was found.
Randall Woodrow Todd Jr.
2 Great Grandson
12/08/2006
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