Hopkins CO. TX - St Clair family

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The St Clair Family

First printed in the Mt. Vernon Optic Herald reprinted in the Sulphur
Springs Gazette Aug. 29, 1913

Mr. T. A. St. Clair has had the remains of his parents, J. S. and Anice
St. Clair, his brothers, James and Luther St. Clair, and sister, Mrs.
Eliza Harris, taken up from the old Gage graveyard, 12 miles north west
of Mt. Vernon, and re-interred in the City (Mt. Vernon) cemetery here;
the new graves being marked by handsome new monuments, one massive
granite stone for his parents and smaller ones at each of the other
three. Uncle Abe selected the lots in the new part of the cemetery, and
left one vacant lot for his own resting place. The father died before the
civil war, the mother some years later. Mrs. Harris died in 1857. James
St. Clair was taken sick at the battle of Elkhorn in 1862 and died seven
months later. Luther St. Clair died in 1867. He was fatally cut by a
knife in his saddle pocket as he was getting off his horse. James St.
Clair and Mrs. Mandy Hedrick of Sulphur Bluff are his children. ( The old
Gage graveyard is now known as the Mitchell Creek graveyard, no longer
buried in.)