Harris Co., TX - Cemeteries - Becker-Roeder Cemetery *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: "Tracy Thronburg" Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** 1. The cemetery is not accessible to the general public. The cemetery lies on one of the golf courses of Longwood Country Club, private property. Longwood Country Club/Golf Course is on Longwood Trace off of Telge Road in Cypress There is a chain link fence and locked gate surrounding the cemetery. It is a beautiful little cemetery in the piny forest of Cypress. GPS coordinates are Latitude: 29.9861. Longitude -95.6339. 2. The following are buried here (from left to right): John Henry Gus Becker, "Born in Germany". Born July 2, 1859; died January 17, 1922. Emily Roeder Becker. Born December 25, 1859; died January 10, 1923. (Wife of JHG Becker) Emilie Isenbiel Roeder. Born September 25, 1827; died Jan 13, 1902. (Wife of E. C. Edward Roeder) Julian Roeder. Born January 12, 1862; died August 19, 1880. E. C. Edward Roeder. Born August 30, 1818; died May 21, 1890. (Ernst Carl Eduard Roeder) George John Roeder. Born May 30, 1855; died May 29, 1866. Helen Louisa Roeder. Born September 17, 1857; died November 1, 1861. (Baptismal certificate says she died of diphtheria.) 3. The land the cemetery is on was part of 600 acres that my great-great-grandfather Edward Roeder owned, and which was part of the great J. H. Callihan land grant (a Mexican land grant). On part of this 600 acres sat the first school in Cypress; the land donated by Edward Roeder. Edward Roeder was a "scientific farmer" (per his will), and read and wrote and spoke 7 different languages, having graduated from the University of Dortmund in Germany. The only child of his four children to reach adulthood and marry was his daughter, Emily Roeder, who married my great-great grandfather, John Henry Gus Becker, a former postmaster of Hockley, Texas, and shop owner. JHG Becker also owned and operated the "Becker House," which contained a general store up front, a saloon, and a dining room, with hotel rooms upstairs for travelers. It was a day's journey to reach Hockley from Houston.