Alsbury Cemetery, Bexar County, Texas

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Submitted by: Tudie Alsbury <cattivo1@sbcglobal.net>
        Date: 14 Mar 2001
     Updated: 17 Feb 2015
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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. When the Texas Department of Transportation
Archeologist Al Magraw and his team examined the grounds in 2008 through 2009, through
very thorough work, it was determined that the graves of the family were never moved and
the homestead was in the original place as previously stated by my father-in-law, E. Frank
"Tex" Alsbury. He always stated unequivocally that the marker and the graves were in their
original place where the Texas Centennial Commission put it.

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


Corrected February 16, 2015 by Mrs. Horace Alsbury.