Bosque Co., TX - Cemeteries - Hill Creek Cemetery *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Bosque County Mail List Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** For Photos or more info, go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbosqu2/Contents/HillCreekCem.html This cemetery is located northeast of Walnut Springs about eight miles, just off the Old Eulogy and Walnut Springs Road, now a gravelled county road. It is on the Stubblebeam Ranch now, Manager, Phillip Munden. Ask permission and a guide. It has a chain link all around the plot, need a key. Copied 1979. This cemetery has at least 70 graves which are marked only with rocks at foot and head, most of them children. The west end seems to be all children and all rock markers. There are four old funeral markers of the type which become unreadable with age. The graves from which information can be gleaned follow: Beginning at the entrance gate to the right: AKENS, Elvina H. (nee: ROWLAND) 19 FEB 1859--09 SEP 1893 Tombstone says: "Lviney MAKENS w/o J.A. MAKENS" Married Melvin AKENS Born in TN; Older Sister to Dutch (D.H.) ROWLAND AKENS, John Arthur Melvin 21 DEC 1851--26 JUL 1912 Born in GA; J. A. M. AKENS marker only at Hill Creek actual burial site is Cedar Grove Cem., Mancos, Montezuma Co., CO AKENS, Sarah Louise Kilmer Osborn--Photo--donated by: Wayne OSBORNE 17 MAY 1862--16 OCT 1915 1st Husband: Newman William OSBORN ELESWORTH, Sally 05 FEB 1792--20 MAY 1878 Born in SC; Married Samuel W. ELESWORTH ELESWORTH, Samuel W. ??--?? Born in Germany HARRELL, Sally Luthena (nee: ELESWORTH) 17 AUG 1825--20 JUL 1898 Born in SC; Daughter of S.W. & S. ELESWORTH HARRELL, Sam 1833--1907 HARRELL, Tobe ??--?? Son of Sam & Sally HARRELL OSBORN, Jeremiah Pinkney--Photo--donated by: Wayne OSBORNE 20 MAY 1827--21 APR 1917 Born in NC OSBORN, John Henry--Photo--donated by: Wayne OSBORNE 27 MAY 1882--19 JUN 1914 Born in TX; Son of N.W. & S.L. OSBORN OSBORN, Lula Belle Lindsey Glass--Photo--donated by: Wayne OSBORNE 13 DEC 1882--24 DEC 1965 OSBORN, Nancy H. (nee: ELESWORTH)--Photo--donated by: Wayne OSBORNE 05 AUG 1822--10 DEC 1901 Born in SC; Daughter of S.W. & S. ELESWORTH; Married Jeremiah P. OSBORN OSBORN, Newman William--Photo--donated by: Wayne OSBORNE 19 APR 1860--22 FEB 1893 Son of J.P. & N.H. OSBORN; 1st husband of Sarah Louise Kilmer AKENS ROWLAND, Dutch (tombstone says: D.H.) 06 JUN 1863--02 SEP 1920 Born in TN; Brother of Elvina H. AKENS