Gonzales Co. TX - CEMETERIES - Lamkin Family Cemetery This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Robin Webb-Lucas Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- A small cemetery that is located on what was once Lamkin land in Gonzales Co., TX near Ottine. It is on private property off of Salt Lake Road. My g.grandfather bought the Lamkin land along with other land in the area, to total over 5000 acres in 1921. It all touched to make one large ranch. There were 26 cemeteries at various places on the property at that time, and none were named. My g.grandfather fenced each of them off in the hopes to preserve. Although most of the land has been sold out of our family now, I am working with the current land owners, my g.uncle and father, in an attempt to locate as many of the cemeteries as I can, and record them and all of the information on the tombstones for future generations. "A wife's last token of Love" In memory of James F. Caldwell Born near Paris, Henry Co., Tenn. July 24, 1834 Died in Gonzales Co., TX. Sept. 8, 1865 "After a short but severe attack of conjestive fever very calmly he bid adieu to Earth and all he held dear, saying he was trusting in God". (James F. Caldwell married a Lamkin) The marker for James F. Caldwell is a large marble tier; the Lamkin markers are flat marble slabs; it once had a very ornate iron fence around it. In Memory of Lewis A. Lamkin Born June 16, 1979 Died March 26, 1868 "Man that is born of Women is of just day and full of trouble. He cometh like a flower and is our (flourin?) to flesh, also as a shadow that countinuith not." "As the water fail from the sea and the flodd decayeth and dryeth, the man laeth down and wilth, all the heroes be no more, they not wake, not be raised, out of their sleep". (These are both on the grave of Lewis Lamkin - I am typing the spelling as it was written on the graves) Sacred to the Memory of William R. Lamkin Born August 23, 1830 Died June 10, 1868 (Masonic Emblem) Honesty and Justice were his Moto "Depart ye in peace, no more to be Amen. " There are two foot markers. One with the initials - M.M.L. the other with G.E.L. I remember that when I was a child, there were other headstones in this cemetery with several people that had died within a few days of each other of consumption. Those tombstone are no longer there. "Lamkin, D. died. Buried in old Lamkin burial ground near Ottine, TX. 1-May-1918" (In the extractions from the "Gonzales Inquirer" http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgonzal/inq1918.txt)