Limestone County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Sowders, Berry Vernon 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Betty Hamilton bhamilt@hughes.net January 3, 2009, 11:24 pm

Cemetery:           Sowders Family Cemetery
Name:               Berry Vernon Sowders

Date Of Photograph: January 3, 2009
Photo can be seen at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/limestone/photos/tombstones/sowdersfamily/sowders7200gph.jpg
Image file size: 58.2 Kb

Berry V. Sowders is buried at coordinates N 31.19.845 / W 096.36.091 in Sowders
Family Cemetery, Limestone County, TX. Inscription: Berry V. Sowders, Born Aug.
9, 1838, Died June 20, 1897. 

The written instructions for reaching the Sowders family cemetery given on the
Limestone County Cemetery website are quite complete and easy to follow. There
were 7 existing headstones in the Sowders family cemetery in August 2004, but we
found only one, this one, on January 3, 2009. I'm sorry the others are missing
because Mary E. Sowders, Berry Vernon's wife was my great great grandmother and
the other Sowders headstones were other ancestors of mine.

Additional Comments:
Berry Vernon and Mary Elizabeth Rodgers Sowders owned and operated a boarding
house near this location. People came here to stay and "take" the mineral waters
found at Sowders Wells. My grandmother told of how, when she was a little girl,
she would walk to the Sowders house (her grandparents) to swing in the swing
attached to the big tree near the home. Berry V. was a self-educated scholar who
read Greek and Latin according to my grandmother, Onie Oletha Polk Cook.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/limestone/photos/tombstones/sowdersfamily/sowders7200gph.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/txfiles/

File size: 2.0 Kb