Bexar County, TX - Cemeteries:  The Alsbury Cemetery
Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Submitted by:  cattivo@satx.net  (Tudie Alsbury)
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                         The Alsbury Cemetery

The Alsbury Cemetery is located 5 miles East of San Antonio, Bexar County,
Texas, on the Salado Creek. To family members and the older residents of
this area it is known as "the Salough". The Alsbury Cemetery is on the
Y. P. Alsbury homestead-farm. The members of the family that are buried in
the cemetery are Young Perry Alsbury, a San Jacinto Battle Veteran that was
in "Deaf Smiths' Spy Company" that helped burn the bridge over Vince's Bayou,
his wife, Mary R. and his mother, Leah Catlett Alsbury, and Thomas Quitman
Alsbury, the son of Y. P.'s brother, Hanson and Harriet Plummer Alsbury.

In 1850, Hanson and his family were living on the Salough, and on October
10, 1849 while on a hunting trip, Thomas Quitman Alsbury died, upon
dismounting from his horse, "a load passed through his body killing him
instantly", as reported in the Texas State Gazette of October 27, 1849.
Another Alsbury relative was watering his horse in the creek when an
alligator came out of the water and killed him; his remains were buried in
the Alsbury Cemetery also.

In an interview of Y. P.'s son, Thomas Jefferson Alsbury #2, by Fred Green
of the San Antonio Express of July 15, 1934, he states," Y. P. Alsbury died
November 19, 1877, and was buried only a few yards from the home he loved.
A huge pecan tree marks the head of his grave. To his right lies the body
of his wife, and to his left is that of his mother."

Young Perry Alsbury was born in Kentucky in 1814, and died November 19, 1877,
his wife Mary R. Alsbury was born in 1832 and died in 1880, his mother, Leah
Catlett Alsbury died in 1853. Thomas Quitman Alsbury died on October 10,
1849.

In 1936, Y. P.'s Great Grandson, E. F. "Tex" Alsbury petitioned the State
of Texas to have a Texas Centennial Marker 1836-1936 placed on the graves
of the Alsbury family on the Salough.

He visited the graves until the summer of 1959, when the surveyors of the
Texas Department of Transportation planned the IH 10 highway. The Marker
is not in the original place where the Texas Centennial Commission put it.
When the Texas Department of Transportation reached the Salado Creek, they
picked up the marker and moved it to the south side of IH 10 East, and
placed it on private property. As near as we can determine, the graves are
located beneath the cemented embankment on the southside of the IH 10 East
Bridge.

Submitted by Horace Alsbury, the Great Great Grandson of Young Perry Alsbury
Thomas Quitman Alsbury information Submitted by Katherine Pearl Lentz Miller,
the Great Great Granddaughter of Hanson Alsbury. February 24, 2001