Bell County, TX - SHARP CEMETERY (11 August 1990) SUBMITTED BY: Polly Peaks-Elmore. All content used by permission. LOCATION: South of Killeen, Texas, off SH 195 (formerly FM 440). Sharp Cemetery land was donated by Emily H. Sharp on May 14, 1879. Rock fence around early graves was to keep the cattle from grazing and walking on the burial places. SHARP CEMETERY and ROCK CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST Narrative History, Followed By Burial Listings. A Special Note About EMILY LeSEUR HAYNES SHARP Follows The Listings. Text From About 1990: One hundred and eleven years ago, May 14, 1879, Emily Haynes Sharp appear before A. H. Ray, Notary Public, Bell County, delivering a signed Deed of Writing (Note 1) designating 5.911 acres of land for the purpose of church, school and cemetery, known as the Sharp Cemetery. This legal instrument was not recorded until 8:30 A.M. July 29, 1889. Sharp Cemetery and Rock Creek Baptist Church of Christ are located 9.3 miles from Elms Road to turn- off of SH 195 on Sharp Cemetery Road; from SH 195 to the cemetery is 1.9 miles. The Lampasas River is approximately 100 yards from the Sharp Cemetery and the church building. South of Killeen, Texas, off SH 195 (formerly FM 440), Sharp Cemetery is found in the R. J. Calder's Abstract 215, adjacent to the Rock Creek Baptist Church of Christ building. Mrs. Sharp gave 3 acres for the cemetery, 1.911/4840 acres for the Rock Creek Baptist Church (Missionary Baptist Church), and 1 acre for a school (Old District 74)(Note 2). There is no evidence remaining of the school or school building. Only the land is intact. Life was a struggle for the early pioneers, but those who settled the West Bell County area had courage, self-reliance, faith and determi- nation to face anything or anybody as is evident by Emily Haynes Sharp. Emily Haynes Sharp deeded the land approximately 1 1/2 years before she died for the sole purpose of school house, church and grave yard. Mrs. Sharp was ahead of her time to be able to grant lands for church, school and cemetery. As testimony of headstone from the same era a woman was the property of her husband; e.g., LUCINDA H. wife of G. W. DOCKERY, Born: February 22, 1837, Died: June 28, 1905 and LUERECIA wife of G. W. McDuffie, Born: June 16, 1857, Died: March 2, 1885. There are 338 interments in Sharp Cemetery and the cemetery is still growing in the year 1990. The graves in Sharp Cemetery all face East. Sharp Cemetery is surrounded by Cedar trees. The old headstones and field rocks marking the earlier graves are now out numbered by the granite grave markers; as are the rock fences surrounding the earlier grave now have been joined with other plots being marked with cement curbs. There are a number of unidentified graves only marked with a field stone at the head of each graves. Early settlers would build a rock fence to keep the cattle from grazing on the graves which S harp Cemetery is no exception. The oldest grave is Sarah Sharp, the daughter of Emily Haynes and Augustus V. Sharp, who was buried in 1864, making the Sharp Cemetery 126 years old (Note 3) . As Texas didn't record documents until sometime in 1903 there is no other public record of SARAH SHARP except her headstone. The second oldest grave is that of AUGUSTUS V. SHARP, Emily Haynes Sharp's second husband, who died March 31, 1868, four years after the interment of SARAH SHARP. There were several graves in place 15 years prior to Sharp Cemetery being deeded as a burying ground. To put this region in perspective, this rural community was active for at least 18 years before the settlement of Killeen (1882), a neighboring town to the North of Sharp Cemetery. Certificate of Death for Ben F. Daniel document the name of the cemetery (Note 4) as Sharp Cemetery. It was stipulated if ever this tract of land shall cease to be for the use and benefit of the Missionary Baptist then the same lands shall revert to the original grantor or their heirs. At some point in time the parcel of land that was given by Mrs. Sharp reverted back to her heirs, G. W. Dockry (sic), H. S. Dockry (sic), G. W. Dockry, Jr. (sic) and R. R. (Ryland Randolph) Dockry (sic). On November 17, 1905, Emily Haynes Sharp's heirs signed an instrument deeding the tract of land unto Rock Creek Baptist Church of Christ with the stipulation that if this tract of land should cease to be for the use and benefit of church then the same lands would go to the original grantors or their heirs (Note 5). The Rock Creek Church of Christ or the Baptist Church of Christ at Rock Creek met in conference Saturday before the 3d Sabbath on June 1882. Preaching was by Brother W. R. Denson (Note 6). The church building was built in 1905 and is known as the Baptist Church of Christ at Rock Creek or Rock Creek Baptist Church. The church received its name from the fact that there is a rock floor in the bottom of the Lampasas River adjacent to the church building. The Lampasas River was used to baptize new members of the church This method of Christian sacrament was used from 1881 to about 1970 (Note 7). As early as June 1894 the Church members were discussing selecting a place and building a brush Arbor. Descendants, of some of those buried in the Sharp Cemetery, met and organized a cemetery association and set the first Saturday in May as the regular working day which is still observed today. The first association president was G. W. Dockery, Sr., who served until 1921. He was followed by J. L Gower, R. R. Dockery, Joe Gower, Clarence Griggs, Emmitt Gower, Bob Haynes, G. A. Gore, Bill Gore, Dick Cosper (Note 8). The current president (as of this writing) of the Cemetery Association is Bennie Ray Gower. Members of Rock Creek Church and Sharp Cemetery organization designated the church as a Memorial Place on May 6, 1967, for revivals, funerals, and practice services (Note 9). RESEARCHED & WRITTEN BY: Polly Peaks-Elmore 3 September 1990 FOOTNOTES 1. Deed, Volume 70, Page 555/556, Bell County Courthouse, Belton, Texas 76513. 2. Copies of Bell County Cards listing how many acres and what Volume and Page each document is found. Bell County Courthouse, Belton, Texas 76513. 3. Sharp Cemetery listing, cataloged by Mariette Taylor, LaJuan Ray and Polly Peaks- Elmore, August 1990. 4. Certificate of Death, Ben F. Daniel, name of cemetery or cre- matory: SHARP CEMETERY, dated December 28, 1966. 5. Deed of Records of Bell County, Texas, November 17, 1905, Volume 363, Page 1. Bell County Courthouse, Belton, Texas. 6. Minutes, dated June 17, 1882. 7. Killeen Daily Herald, Sunday, May 1, 1983, obtained from Killeen Public Library, Killeen, Texas. 8. Newspaper article, April 29, 1979, Killeen Daily Herald, Killeen, Texas, obtained from the Killeen Library. 9. Notarized Document from Mildred Cosper, Treas., November 7, 1977. EMMETT NEWELL R. L. Infant son of June 10, 1888 Mr. & Mrs. Earl Springer October 31, l888 July 15, 1917 - September 3, 1917 GEORGE LOGAN ELIZABETH MCBRYDE June 22, 1872 April 7, 1807 August 21, 1891 September 10, 1891 JAMES ANDREW SHAFER ROSS H. KERNS November 29, 1889 November 8, 1919 March 22, 1912 July 2, l982 J. FRANK KERNS COLON KERNS October 14, 1882 January 11, 1885 May 27, 1950 May 18, 1962 ELHAM JORDAN H. D. ROSSELL son of J. W. & M. E. Jordan July 29, 1883 1 October 1889 June 9, 1930 14 years, 8 months, 15 days Capt A. H. RAY MARY ANN RAY May 5, 1914 died April 22, 1847 age 76 years October 2, 1927 CHARLES PURL ANDREA DAWN BULOT Born in Arkansas July 23, 1968 December 24, 1852 June 21, 1971 Died in Youngsport, TX March 8, 1880 LATRELLE RENEE BULOT MAURICE PURL & LOU PURL June 29, 1965 March 24, 1894 October 23, 1897 July 1, 1965 March 29, 1959 August 6, 1982 CHARLES A. BULOT, III MANNIE A. KELLAM June 23, 1961 March 28, 1851 July 8, 1961 February 17, 1880 WALTER H. PURL NANCY A. PURL February 24, 1885 Mary 20, 1825 April 24 1934 May 18, 1893 V. T. BECK JAMES WILSON Dates not readable Born/Died: 1962 ZELMA PURL YOUNGBLOOD M. G. WHITSITT October 2, 1915 April 8, 1835 January 16, 1985 January 23, 1901 JESS WILSON FANNIE B. FISHER Born/Died: 1963 1886 - 1957 JOSEPH J. CULLUM World War II & Korea SFC, US Army July 30, 1918 REX FISHER January 23, 1981 1914 - 1932 JOE NEAL FISHER, SR. CARL FISHER December 29, 1916 SGT, US Army, WWII - 1913 - 1979 JOHN RYAN FISHER ROY M. FISHER July 23, 1978 1909 - 1973 June 13, 1981 Infant of WADE J. FISHER ROY M. FISHER 1862 - 1937 Born/Died: June 29, 1929 W. J. FISHER AND CARMEN ANN FISHER March 20, 1926 April 1, 1933 - - C. C. GRIFFITH SALLIE KATHLEEN DANIEL 1854 - 1934 October 5, 1918 - Infant son of BEN F. DANIEL Mr. & Mrs. Wade Fisher August 4, 1917 March 13, 1935 December 24, 1966 A. C. HENRY ADA HAYNES May 23, 1888 - May 4, 1916 - VIRDIE PETERSON M. E. HENRY Died February 29, 1900 September 30, 1862 Age 1 year, 9 months, 5 days December 30, 1900 L. P. JONES ODDIE PEARL SHAFER May 15, 1833 December 12, 1898 March 16, 1900 January 1, 1902 SUSIE RUTH ALEXANDER LAVERNA A. ALEXANDER January 11, 1913 September 26, 1907 January 23, 1914 January 27, 1913 V. H. BRADLEY REV. W. R. DENSON April 10, 1887 1848 - 1923 5 years, 5 months, 5 days SARAH J. DENSON MOLLIE J. DENSON 1848 - 1936 1867 - 1889 ADDIE B. SHAFER Z. T. GRIGGS December 12, 1898 May 25, 1900 January 21, 1902 September 24, 1900 DAVID DENSON M. J. COX 1872 - 1887 December 2, 1843 March 22, 1885 JENNIE SPRINGER 1876 - 1954 R. L. SPRINGER BILL SPRINGER July 15, 1917 1875 - 1866 September 3, 1917 ROBERT COX EDWARD ARTHUR CHILDERS January 29, 1905 October 22, 1881 Age 23 years January 31, 1885 L. C. COX Z. T. GRIGGS, JR. October 6, 1878 Mary 25, 1900 January 23, 1903 September 24, 1900 R. L. SPRINGER MARY E. SPRINGER August 2, 1869 June 14, 1870 June 26, 1940 August 14, 1939 REV. W. R. DENSON SURAH J. DENSON 1848 - 1923 1848 - 1936 MOLLIE J. DENSON DAVID DENSON 1867 - 1887 1872 - 1887 No first name DENSON No first name DENSON MARTHA ALEXANDER Y. P. ALEXANDER March 2, 1824 Born 1825 April 17, 1909 April 19, 1898 E. F. ALEXANDER ANGIE PEARL ALEXANDER April 20, 1892 April 4, 1917 April 23, 1892 December 28, 1968 MRS. L. A. ALEXANDER Infant son of December 5, 1853 J. W. & N. W. Alexander July 25, 1899 Born/Died: April 17, 1916 JOHN RICHARD ALEXANDER ERNEST DOYLE ALEXANDER June 29, 1856 April 16, 1919 March 17, 1932 June 17, 1917 Infant son of W. & N. W. ALEXANDER March 8, 1911 March 16, 1911 JESSIE JAMES ALEXANDER JOHN ALEXANDER, JR. April 25, 1911 January 31, 1928 September 9, 1901 March 15, 1929 J. F. GORE SALLIE J. GORE May 10, 1880 March 14, 1851 August 29, 1902 September 18, 1931 ELIJAH GORE RUFUS NORMAN GORE November 28, 1845 April 19, 1896 June 14, 1928 October 25, 1929 WILFORD VOL TAYLOR ARABELLE GORE TAYLOR 1888 - 1974 1890 - 1978 ASBORN L. GRIGGS HUBERT Q. GORE March 9, 1908 February 12, 1893 - - ESSIE R. GORE THEDA GORE December 10, 1893 1927 - 1940 Feburary 11, 1981 G. A. (GEORGE) GORE ANNIE B. GORE 1883 - 1950 1885 - 1952 DARREL B. DANHAUR ANITA GORE SMITH July 4, 1902 March 9, 1920 August 14, 1972 September 9, 1975 BESSIE L. GORE CHARLES H. GRIGGS March 9, 1920 - April 26, 1986 Feburary 14, 1929 S. S. GRIGGS JULIA GRIGGS March 17, 1846 August 5, 1879 April 21, 1910 December 12, 1970 MARY A. GIGGS JOSEPH PANTERS, JR. March 11, 1842 August 5, 1952 February 22, 1928 August 17, 1986 ARLENE GRIGGS EVELYN GRIGGS December 2, 1924 December 7, 1916 November 27, 1930 January 6, 1920 J. W. (BUDDY) GRIGGS HOMER GRIGGS November 7, 1918 1893 - 1957 June 30, 1920 HATTIE LU GRIGGS LONG 3 Infant babies of 1895 - 1968 CHARLIE B. GRIGGS CECIL GRIGGS REV. J. K. GRIGGS 1915 - 1978 1870 - 1952 RALPH DEAN GRIGGS VERONA MCCALL GRIGGS December 28, 1906 May 24, 1915 March 13, 1972 March 16, 1947 BILLIE FAULCON OTIS BRYAN GRIGGS July 19, 1934 July 28, 1894 July 23, 1982 May 4, 1974 MACCILE GRIGGS DEARMINT SAM DEARMINT November 18, 1916 August 16, 1922 Semptember 5, 1980 June 10, 1953 LOU GRIGGS SAMMIE COX 1876 - 1952 September 10, 1896 - R. D. HENDRICK JESSIE COX September 28, 1835 November 14, 1899 November 28, 1901 April 6, 1900 5 graves unknown 2 graves unknown MRS. A. E. GOULD W. P. YOUNG May 7, 1833 July 21, 1836 October 4, 1895 August 25, 1894 URIAH GOULD MARTHA ANN TAYLOR September 22, 1824 October 19, 1844 August 16, 1908 January 10, 1890 EULALA E. PATTON GEORGE PATTON October 7, 1877 September 1, 1835 February 14, 1899 February 11, 1890 HANNAH A. PATTON SUSAN P. CUNNINGHAM August 13, 1835 Unknown December 27, 1890 RICHARD B CUNNINGHAM WIFE - April 22, 1855 DAUGHTER - August 19, 1930 ADA CUNNINGHAM MART COX June 11, 1876 February 19, 1870 May 18, 1961 November 19, 1912 4 Unmarked graves 6 Unmarked graves LEE A. ASHSBRANNER HENRY G. HENDRICKS June 23, 1892 April 1, 1866 August 31, 1898 May 26, 1922 MARY E. HENDRICKS NEWT HENDRICKS December 30, 1878 January 15, 1892 June 17, 1901 November 7, 1979 VERDIE MCCOLLUM HENDRICKS EDWIN E. CHILDERS June 2, 1898 1925 - 1946 March 28, 1984 NORA HENDRICKS HAMILTON VALENTINE CHILDERS September 12, 1899 February 21, 1928 November 29, 1916 January 28, 1989 GLENN E. CHILDERS GREGORY S. KOVALCHUKI December 20, 1922 August 27 1962 June 7, 1980 August 20, 1981 OSCAR S. CHILDERS ANNIE V. CHILDERS 1890 - 1964 1903 - 1979 JOHN W. MCCLENDON MATILDA F. MCCLENDON October 17, 1843 March 14, 1847 February 4, 1907 January 22, 1903 ROSA LU PERRY LILLA A. MOORE December 4, 1908 August 5, 1870 January 10, 1940 April 20, 1950 FRANK MOORE METTIE MOORE February 26, 1853 August 5, 1887 June 16, 1932 August 16, 1892 NANY J. COSPER E. P. COSPER July 7, 1839 July 4, 1837 February 16, 1894 March 8, 1909 1 Unmarked grave 4 Unmarked graves AUNT ANNIE CRAIG 1 Unmarked grave 1849 - 1923 JAMES M. COSPTER MATHIAS HOOVER October 1871 March 6, 1859 March 1903 January 4, 1906 G. W. LOONIE HERMAN WILLIAMS, JR. January 28, 1892 January 1937 August 5, 1892 - EARNEST RAY BRIDGES JOSEPH S. PRUITT September 1932 September 24, 1873 September 15, 1960 September 12, 1943 ANNE B. PRUITT JOHN WALTER ALEXANDER August 22, 1881 Dec 18, 1876 July 11, 1913 June 30, 1961 Infant daughter of NOLA WILLIE ALEXANDER J. S. & A. B. PRUITT February 8, 1881 June 16, 1903 April 28, 1961 RUBY LEE OVERTON CARRY L. TAYLOR daughter of May 20, 1893 J. A. & M. A. OVERTON February 4, 1971 October 22, 1910 July 11, 1914 EMMA M. GARTMAN JAMES C. GARTMAN May 20, 1895 December 27, 1885 February 21, 1978 March 31, 1952 MARY F. GARTMAN BEN F. SEWEL June 3, 1861 March 17, 1898 November 27, 1941 December 28, 1937 Infant daughter of Infant & Infant twin daughters of THOMAS B. GARTMAN WILL & MAGGIE GARTMAN RAY H. GARTMAN, JR. S. T. (TOM BERT) HAYNES February 9, 1934 May 9, 1912 Mary 31, 1935 March 6, 1964 PFC JOHN P. HAYNES FRANCES D. HAYNES September 1, 1914 April 6, 1883 July 29, 1963 February 3, 1971 TOM J. HAYNES ELDRED CECIL Infant son of February 23, 1883 MR. & MRS. WILL CRAIG February 1, 1959 December 1903 February 15, 1904 GLENN ROE HAYNES S/SGT EDD TANNER HAYNES Feburary 28, l906 December 1916 June 12, 1906 November 12, 1949 SARAH E. HAYNES W. P. HAYNES **** May 1, 1860 1844 - 1925 August 20, 1942 JOSEPHINE BLOW THOMAS HABESMACKEN December 1892 February 18, 1825 April 2, 1927 February 20, 1918 MARTHA WITT D. J. WITT November 10, 1828 December 24, 1824 July 27, 1900 October 6, 1889 CATHERINE ANNA UNDERWOOD LEVI UNDERWOOD January 17, 1873 September 15, 1860 July 10, 1952 August 1, 1957 J. J. PHELPS BETHSEDAL W. SMITH March 10, 1834 February 3, 1825 September 21, 1889 November 8, 1901 EMMETT F. ALEXANDER DAVID M. ALEXANDER April 2,1892 April 17, 1938 July 29, 1988 - FLOYD ALEXANDER 6 Unmarked graves 1898 - 1956 MABY UNDERWOOD AMANDA UNDERWOOD 1848 August 14, 1851 September 20, 1961 December 22, 1881 Infant daughter of 5 Unmarked graves E. R. & MARY UNDERWOOD August 24, 1884 Tomb stone; not legible August 26, 1884 (iron fence) WILLIE GARTMAN MOTHER GARTMAN 1903 - 1937 1880 - 1926 VELMA GARTMAN FATHER GARTMAN 1905 - 1907 1881 - 1951 EUGENE A. GOULD NANCY L. GOULD 1864 - 1934 1858 - 1933 5 Unmarked graves 1 Unmarked grave G. W. DOCKERY LUCINDA H. wife of G. W. DOCKERY January 19, 1838 February 22, 1837 July 4, 1921 June 28, 1905 W. R. DOCKERY H. S. DOCKERY December 20, 1894 March 21, 1859 February 26, 1939 March 8, 1934 G. W. DOCKERY, JR. Infant daughter of September 13, 1861 OTHEL & DORIS DOCKERY July 15, 1943 RANDOLPH DOCKERY ELLIE DOCKERY 1868 - 1953 1872 - 1958 Infant daughter of Infant daughter of GAYLE DOCKERY OTHEL & DORIS DOCKERY January 14, 1947 January 14, 1947 1 Unmarked grave IDA MAY KNIGHT TOM COSPER September 9, 1902 October 8, 1869 January 16, 1928 November 10, 1956 ELLA COSPER IRVING BROOKS September 15, 1883 February 29, 1904 May 6, 1965 November 10, 1988 MINNIE GARTMAN ROSELL S. COSPTER April 28, 1903 February 14, 1916 June 18, 1988 October 24, 1983 ALTA C. LAW SHUFORD S. LAW November 24, 1911 February 17, 1906 - March 3, 1983 WILLIAM HANKINS RUBY D. RAY February 10, 1836 September 1903 July 10, 1904 November 16, 1945 JOEL AUBRY MATTIE MCGUFFIE November 19, 1902 March 15, 1876 September 12, 1976 December 23, 1942 CORDELIA MCGUFFIE GARNER JESSIE GILBERT GARNER 1879 - 1933 1902 - 1913 WILLARD L., son of W. T. & 1 Unmarked grave CORDELIA GARNER January 31, 1898 Infant daughter of MR. & MRS. December 31, 1904 G. W. MCDUFFIE November 1, 1903 M. D. MCDUFFIE May 4, 1885 RACHEL E. MCDUFFIE July 6, 1904 1871 - 1942 LUERECIA wife of G. W. MCDUFFIE GEORGE W. MCDUFFIE June 16, 1857 - March 2, 1885 dECEMBER 22, 1929 G. W. HUGGINS 2 Unmarked graves 1859 - 1930 ROBERT C. MCGAUGH 1 Unmarked grave - - 1 Unmarked grave NELLIE N. daughter of O. B. KUMS J. P. & J. S. CEARLEY November 1, 1918 February 12, 1883 March 3, 1920 October 14, 1885 JOE F. GOWER MAUD GOWER December 13, 1883 July 16, 1882 November 8, 1969 May 9, 1971 J. L. GOWER SALLIE L. GOWER March 3, 1851 March 2, 1851 July 21, 1939 August 5, 1919 J. N. GOWER MATTIE GOWER November 27, 1890 February 8, 1889 February 17, 1891 November 4, 1894 NEWTON NORFLEET NASMI NORFLEET July 22, 1898 September 22, 1898 - February 25, 1958 MINNIE PETERSON 25 unmarked graves 1881 - 1940 VIRGIL D. GOWER C. B. (BUD) GOWER October 29, 1903 November 17, 1878 July 23, 1984 October 9, 1934 LIALA PEARL GOWER WANDA GOWER HOBBS April 23, 1883 March 22, 1929 March 7, 1972 April 14, 1945 RAYMOND B. GOWER HENRY COSPER June 10, 1909 November 21, 1901 April 4, 1985 November 19, 1983 SAM R. DOCKERY RUTH C. DOCKERY 1894 - 1972 1896 - 1971 MYRTLE COSPER KENNETH A. JOHNSON November 11, 1900 May 22, 1933 November 19, 1972 July 27, 1974 MILDRED ADALINE HAYNES August 6, 1870 December 8, 1876 ADALINE HAYNES SARA SHARP - OLDEST GRAVE ** - January 22, 1858 August 13, 1876 January 29, 1864 A. (Augustus) V. SHARP *** 3 graves within rock fence August 27, 1810 Headstones are not legible. March 31, 1868 EMILY H. SHARP * MISS NETTIE HAYNES August 22, 1824 April 4, 1870 December 6, 1880 July 3, 1890 O. B. KERNS April 11, 1918 March 3, 1920 * Lady who gave the land for Rock Creek Church, School District 74, and Sharp Cemetery. ** Emily Haynes & Augustus V. Sharp's daughter. *** Emily Haynes Sharp's second husband. **** W. P. (William Parmenas "Pompy") Haynes is the son of Emily Haynes Sharp and her first husband. Cataloged by: Polly Peaks-Elmore August 1990 EMILY LeSEUR HAYNES SHARP In 1846, William Glenn Haynes, son of Parmenas Haynes, Jr., and his wife, Emily LeSeur Haynes (who was born in Georgia and who he had married in 1842 in Russell County, Alabama when she was 18 and he was 24), moved to Harrison County, Texas to be near Parmenas Haynes, Sr., who had moved there earlier. Emily LeSeur was from a wealthy and prominent family with French ancestry and was related to Napoleon Bonaparte. For three generations the Haynes' were large land owners, with slaves. William Glenn and Emily Haynes were no exception. By 1849, William Glenn Haynes owned over 1,000 acres in Harrison and Panola Counties, Texas. He had his own cotton mill and gin near his home in Elysian Fields. Family history passed down from generation to generation states that William Glenn went on a river boat trip to Alabama in 1849 to collect money owned him and was murdered on the return trip for his money. Emily who had a "6th sense" about things had begged him not to go because she felt something was going to happen to him. So, at the age of 25, Emily LeSleur Haynes was a wealthy young widow with 3 children, William Parmenas "Pompy" Haynes, Samuel Grant Haynes and Mary Jane Haynes. Emily's second son, Samuel Grant Haynes, married Mary Casey. They lived on a portion of the farm nearer the Cemetery. Samuel Grant Haynes and his wife later sold their portion of the farm and moved their family to DeLeon, Texas, where they are both buried. They had eight children: Mildred "Jennie" Haynes Born: May 14, 1867 Emily "Nettie" Haynes Born: February 1870, who died at age 20 after being stood up at the church for her wedding. (It is said that she died of a broken heart.) William Allen Haynes Born: Mary 14, 1872, who was known as Allen and was a well-known area rancher. James Hill Haynes Born: December 20, 1873. Henry M. Haynes, a doctor from the Gatesville area. Samuel Robert "Bob" Haynes Born: November 5, 1883, who gave us much of this information and lived in Stephenville, Texas, until his death June 3, 1972. Ada Haynes Born: August 16, 1887. Emily's daughter by William Glenn Haynes, Mary Jane "Sis", married John W. Cox in 1864. They had 7 sons: William Cox, Solomon Cox, Hugh Cox, Samuel Cox, John W. Cox, Jr., Alonzo Cox, and Bob Cox. They also had one daughter, Jennie, who married Bill Springer. Mary Jane and her husband John W. Cox, and several of their children, in- cluding Jennie Springer, are buried in Sharp Cemetery. On February 8, 1852, Emily married Augustus V. Sharp and in 1859 they moved to Bell County and settled the land along the Lampasas River. Emily and Augustus Sharp had 4 children; Alonzo (Bud), who never married and died young; Sarah, who died at age 6, Emily who married Emerson Kelley and was listed as living in Youngsport, Texas, in the 1880 census, with her husband and 2 children, Martha, age 5, and Maud, age 1. Emily's youngest daughter, Sula (Sulie) Sharp married Mark Whitmire. They had a daughter, Bertha, and a son, Worley Whitmire. Emily's oldest son, William Parmenas Haynes, went away to fight in the Civil War when he was 16 year of age. He was reported killed in action, but Emily's "6th sense", told her different. She kept setting his place at the table and believing that he would return. One day as she was at the river getting a bucket of water, she heard him call to her and she looked up and he was coming across the field to her. William Parmenas Haynes married Adaline Cole and they had 1 child, Mildred Adaline, who died at age 6. She died in December 1876, only 4 months after her mother's death in August 1876. They are both buried in the rock enclosure at Sharp Cemetery, along with August V. Sharp, Alonzo Sharp, Sarah Sharp, Emily Sharp, and one other grave whose marker is too dim to read. William Parmenas Haynes' second wife was Sarah Elizabeth Gould, daughter of Anna Elizabeth Lentz Gould and her husband, Uriah Gould. William and "Sallie", as she was called, had 7 children. They are: William Uriah Haynes Born: December 18, 1877, who moved to Oklahoma and died there. Ophelia Mae Haynes Born: October 18, 1879, who married a Wilmeth, and lived and died in New Mexico. Samuel LeSeur Haynes Born: December 4, 1880, who lived and died in San Angelo, Texas. Thomas Jefferson Haynes Born: February 23, 1882, who married Frances Douglas McClendon, daughter of Matilda Gower McClendon and John William McClendon. Anna Belle Haynes Born: November 24, 1885, who married George Gore. Sadie Janette Haynes Born: February 16, 1890, who married Alfred Shafer. Josephine Haynes Born: December 4, 1892, who married a Blow. The home which William Parmenas Haynes built for his family is owned by the Churchill Duncan family and even though it has deteriorated, its ruins still stands at the intersection of SH 195 and the Sharp Cemetery Road. William Parmenas Haynes and his 2d wife, Sarah Elizabeth, are buried in the Sharp Cemetery, along with their son, Tom or "Nubbin", as he was called as a boy, Anna Belle Gore, and Josephine Blow, their daughters, along with numerous other grand- children and great-grandchildren of Emily LeSeur Haynes Sharp. HAYNES & SHARP FAMILY INFORMATION WAS FURNISHED BY: Zoanna Williams Curry, Great-great Granddaughter of Emily LeSeur Haynes Sharp and her first husband, William Glenn Haynes. 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