Limestone Co. Texas - Hancock Cemetery

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From theshadow@hot1.net Mon Sep 14 07:41:44 1998
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:23:22 -0500
From: theshadow <theshadow@hot1.net>
To: "Limestone Co." <dmorgan@efn.org>
Subject: Hancock Cemetery

    This is the Hancock Family Cemetery, which is located one mile west of
Mexia, Texas on U.S. Hwy 84.  It is owned and maintained by the Hancock
family (NOTE: it still is).  It was first used in 1865 and last used in
1939.  There are several marked graves with no headstones, just rocks or
pipes stuck in the ground.
    This information and survey was submitted by Lesa Mayes Rothrock.

(left side gives person's info and right side tells what else is on
tombstone---info in parentheses under person's name is info from me)

A. C. Hancock        5-4-1826/11-17-1904    wife of C.J. Hancock
    (nee Archasia Clementine Warren)             (Charles Jackson)

C. J. Hancock        1-18-1823/11-20-1903
    (Charles Jackson)

Lucinda Hancock    10-15-1857/4-22-1939    wife of Lewis R.
    (nee Lucinda C. Bennett)                               (Lewis Ross)

L. R. Hancock, Sr.    5-25-1829/5-21-1893
    (son of C.J. and A.C. Hancock)
                                                         DOUBLE MARKER
Mary Hancock           6-15-1838/3-11-1895
    (nee UNK)

Hellen Blanch Hancock    5-7-1886/1-20-1887 Dau. of B.F. and J.A. Hancock
                 (Benjamin Franklin and James Anna Smith Hancock)

William C. Hancock    12-31-1874/9-5-1876    son of L.R. & L.C. Hancock
    (William Charles)                                      (Lewis & Lucinda)

Frances Hancock    1-8-1794/4-23-1865        "Mother"
(nee Frances Frankye Adams, wife of Lewis Hancock--not Lewis Ross)

Ollie Hancock            3-4-1835/6-5-1876
    (nee Olivia Adamson, wife of Bluford Jordan)
                                                            DOUBLE MARKER
B. J. Hancock, Sr.    2-17-1833/11-11-1898
    (Bluford Jordan--there is no evidence that there was a B.J. Jr. even
though he did have a nephew named after him who is buried in the Coolidge
Cemetery.)

The rest of the graves are not Hancock family as far as I know.  We were
told that Bluford and Frances allowed others (from Datura and Coolidge) to
be buried there as they did not have a cemetery.

William P. Odom        4-3-1887/4-29-1887    son of W.N. & S.A. Odom

Isham B. Cogdell        3-30-1854/1-10-1894

Maria R. McCullough  4-5-1848/8-7-1897    wife of George McCullough

Lillie M. Hopkins          2-3-1886/10-17-1890    dau. of M.E.&N.F. Hopkins

Lila M. Hopkins            2-17-1882/5-16-1893    dau. of M.E.&N.F.Hopkins

S. M. Bond                    1-1-1860/12-26-1900    wife of S. M. Bond

Carl N. Henderson        7-14-1905/3-9-1907      son of T.A.&N.L. Henderson

A. J. Hayes                    5-16-1833/12-27-1892

Eliza C. Lowe                6-16-1862/7-15-1894    Wife of J. B. Lowe