The following is by the original creator of this memorial, Lisa Franklin: JH McPeeters died July 18, 1879 in his 65th year. This marker is located in a crypt/brick type enclosure and is very overgrown. You'd have to know it was there to even know to look for it--I found it by accident when surveying/photographing this cemetery on a trip from Houston to Coleman TX in April of 2008.
By Sally Anderson Goodson, great great granddaughter of James Harvey McPeeters: The stones around his grave were placed there in 1884 by his son-in-law, George Washington Lewis. George and his wife, Mary Elizabeth "Polly" McPeeters Lewis moved to New Mexico that year. George built the stone walls before they left Texas.
By Sally Anderson Goodson, great great granddaughter of James Harvey McPeeters: The stones around his grave were placed there in 1884 by his son-in-law, George Washington Lewis. George and his wife, Mary Elizabeth "Polly" McPeeters Lewis moved to New Mexico that year. George built the stone walls before they left Texas.
The following is by the original creator of this memorial, Lisa Franklin: JH McPeeters died July 18, 1879 in his 65th year. This marker is located in a crypt/brick type enclosure and is very overgrown. You'd have to know it was there to even know to look for it--I found it by accident when surveying/photographing this cemetery on a trip from Houston to Coleman TX in April of 2008.
By Sally Anderson Goodson, great great granddaughter of James Harvey McPeeters: The stones around his grave were placed there in 1884 by his son-in-law, George Washington Lewis. George and his wife, Mary Elizabeth "Polly" McPeeters Lewis moved to New Mexico that year. George built the stone walls before they left Texas.
By Sally Anderson Goodson, great great granddaughter of James Harvey McPeeters: The stones around his grave were placed there in 1884 by his son-in-law, George Washington Lewis. George and his wife, Mary Elizabeth "Polly" McPeeters Lewis moved to New Mexico that year. George built the stone walls before they left Texas.
