McLennan County, TX - Kellum Cemetery Kellum Cemetery, East Waco, McLennan Co., Texas Recorded by R. Steven Rainwater & Susan Chance-Rainwater 7 Mar 1999 Directions: East of I-35 in Waco at the corner of J.J. Flewellen and East Herring. One of these roads was previously called Dripping Springs Road and may be marked that way on older maps. This cemetery is fairly well maintained, but at least a dozen of the headstones are broken and unreadable. The most notable feature is an enormous obelisk in the center of the graveyard. A Texas Historical Commission marker was placed in 1989 and reads: "A native of Virginia, Edward Kellum (1787-1863) was a soldier in the Tennessee militia during the War of 1812. He married Karen Tabor in November 1812, and they moved to Alabama and Mississippi before eventually settling in McLennan County, Texas in 1854. The parents of ten children, the Kellums bought land along the Brazos River and established a farm. This location was chosen as the site of a family graveyard some time before 1863. When Edward Kellum died on February 23, 1863, he became the first family member interred here. Karen Kellum was buried next to her husband in 1869. Other family members buried here include Edward and Karen's sons, William Riley Kellum (1817-1890) and Thomas Smith Kellum (1823-1873). Of the twenty-five known burials, fourteen are marked with illegible sandstone markers. All twenty-five graves are believed to be those of Kellum family members. The last person buried here was Mary Elizabeth Jurney Kellum, widow of William Riley Kellum. Following her death in 1895, her will provided for the maintenance of the cemetery. Originally encompassing a one-acre rural site, the graveyard has been surrounded by the growing city of Waco and now contains one-half acre of land." KELLUM, Edward, 28 Feb 1781 - 23 Feb 1863, Father, Private 1st Tennessee Militia, War of 1812 KELLUM, Karen Happuch, 1795 - 1869, wife of Edward Kellum, daughter of Lt. William Tabor, Revolutionary Soldier, footstone includes DAR badge RHODES, Emma, 1585 - 1876 PUCKETT, Nora, 1870 - 1875 KELLUM, Mary E., 8 Mar 1826 - 26 Mar 1895, wife of William R. Kellum KELLUM, William R., 27 Dec 1817 - 23 Oct 1890 FAULKNER, Baby, 19 Jan 1883 - 5 Feb 1883, son of C. & Emma Faulkner KELLUM, John J., 27 Oct 1854 - 20 Mar 1869 KELLUM, Martha E., 14 Dec 1828 - 9 Jan 1877 KELLUM, T.S., 27 Apr 1823 - 7 Jun 1872, murdered at the ford of White Rock and the ford of Graham Road, Masonic emblem