Comanche Co., TX - Cemeteries - Sipe Springs Cemetery *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Sandra Smith Gwilliam Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** Sipe Springs Cemetery, Comanche Co., TX Tombstone Photos are located in the photo section of Texas Tombstone Project http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/cemph/comancheph.html John and Susanna Hall descendants buried in Sipe Springs Cemetery. Some of this is duplicated from the other email since it is a different photo. Two of the children of John Hall [1780 NC] and Susanna ____ Hall [1788 NC] are buried in Sipe Springs Cemetery as well as several of their grandchildren. 1. Minerva Ann Hall Smith Huckabee [1829 Tennessee – 1898 Texas] and her second husband, Ezekiel Huckabee [1836, Tennessee (later of Pontotoc, Mississippi) – 1902, Texas) Texana Smith Milner Black [1853-1919] daughter of Joseph P. & Minerva Hall Smith. Clara Smith [1895] daughter of Henry Mattison & Dillie Jo Smith Sarah May Smith Bandy [1902 - 1906] Daughter of Henry Mattison & Dillie Jo Smith Sarah and William K. Bandy's son William Dudley Bandy [10 Oct 1906] William Edward Smith [1881-1963] son of James J. & Josephine Hall Smith Nettie Lakey Smith [1899-1968] wife of William Edward Smith Elmer Smith [1924-1970] son of William Edward & Nettie Lakey Smith 2. Marion Washington Hall was born 12 Feb 1827 to John & Susanna Hall in Bedford County, Tennessee. He moved to Texas in 1837 with his family. When he was a young man, (before 1845), he sailed on a ship around South America on a 6 month voyage to California where he married Minerva Jane Isbell 3 Aug 1865 in Vallecito, Calaveras, California, USA. He died 9 Jun 1902 in Sipe Springs. Minerva Jane Isbell was born 18 Feb 1846 in Missouri to Davidson E. & Sarah B. Robertson Isbell. She died 13 Dec 1922 and is buried in Sipe Springs. Mary Hall (daughter of Marion W. & Minerva J. Hall) was born 1 Oct 1870 in Copperopolis, Calaveris, California, USA. She died 13 Dec 1946 in Cisco, Eastland, Texas. Her husband, Frank Vernon was born 25 Oct 1867 in Missouri and died 23 May 1901. They married 2 Oct 1890 in Sipe Springs. Both of them are buried in Sipe Springs Cemetery. Mary and Frank Vernon had 4 children buried in Sipe Springs Cemetery. Hall Vernon [27 Feb 1893 – 25 Feb 1895] Mary Myrtle 14 Jan 1895 in Cisco, Eastland, Texas – 7 Jun 1897.Vance [1898-1909] Juanart [1899 – 1905] Arthur Green Hall, son of Marion W. & Minerva Isbell Hall was born 3 Mar 1874 in Sipe Springs. He died 22 Feb 1954 in Dallas, Texas and is buried in Sipe Springs. His wife, Theresa Frances Plott was born 6 Mar 1876 in Texas and died 8 Apr 1958. She is also buried in Sipe Springs. [Arthur and Theresa were married 22 Jun 1898 in Sipe Springs. William Jackson Hall, son of Marion & Minerva Isbell Hall was born and died in 1881. He is buried in Sipe Springs. The family gravesite with Minerva Ann Huckabee's grandchildren and some great grandchildren with information about others in the Sipe Springs Cemetery. If this one works out okay for you, then I have a similar ones and another one of the entry which has text below telling everyone I know of the family who is buried in the Sipe Springs Cemetery- about 18 of the Hall relatives, including the ones below. I only have a limited amount of individual tombstone photos. The graves in this picture show the relationships between where the stones are placed and who is buried there and who they are related to, plus a note about another child of Minerva Ann who may be buried in the cemetery. Here is the information about the people in the cemetery: Texana Smith Milner Black born May 1853 in Rusk County, Texas, the daughter of Joseph P. Smith & Minerva Ann Hall Smith [Huckabee] ). She died 2 Oct 1919 in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas. She may be buried in one of the unmarked graves near her mother. According to her obituary, her son, James Madison Black took her to Sipe Springs to be buried. Texana Smith Black was the wife [1st] of Williamson Milner. They were divorced after their daughter, Tommie May Milner was born. Texana next married James Black. Her full name was Hannah Texana Smith Milner Black, but she was known as Texana Black most of the time. Dillie Jo Smith is also a daughter of Joseph P. & Minerva Ann Smith. Dillie Jo married Henry Mattison Smith (nephew of Joseph P. Smith). Clara Smith daughter of Henry Mattison & Dillie Jo Smith, was born 29 May 1895 in Sipe Springs, Comanche, Texas, died 17 Dec 1895 and is buried in Sipe Springs Cemetery. Sarah May Smith Bandy was born 16 Jul 1882 to Henry Mattison & Dillie Jo in Coryell, Texas. She died 14 Oct 1906 in Sipe Springs, Comanche, Texas. [four days after her son, William Bandy was born and died.] William Dudley Bandy was born and died 10 Oct 1906. He is the infant son of William K. Bandy & Sarah May Smith Bandy. George Huckabee is the son of Ezekiel Huckabee & Sarah Shaw Huckabee. [I have a closeup photo of his tombstone]. He was born 15 Nov 1861 in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He died 11 Feb 1889 in Sipe Springs, Comanche, Texas. George Huckabee is buried next to his step-mother, Minerva Ann Hall Smith Huckabee. I did not have George Huckabee's information when I typed the text on the picture.