Victoria County, Texas -- Nursery Cemetery, Nursery (partial listing)
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Submitted by Cynthia (Midgett) Shaffer  cshaffer@houston.rr.com
Submitted January 2002

Directions:  From Victoria, Texas, go North on Highway 87, 10 miles to 
yellow flashing light; turn right; continue over railroad tracks, go left
2/10 miles; go right on Fordtran Road 4/10 mile; then left 1/2 miles; 
Cemetery will be on left.

Condition:  There is a sign indicating "Nursery Cemetery" (see photo). 
http://www.usgwtombstones.org/Texas/victoriaph.html
The cemetery is fenced with a chain-linked fence, and is well kept.  

Adolphus J. Brady	March 17, 1881 - Sept 20, 1970
Mamie A. Brady	Jan 9, 1887 - Nov 30, 1969
(double stone)

Walter J. Buchanan		Sept 30, 1922 - July 26, 1994
				US Navy WWII

Samuel W. McCollum	Nov 8, 1858 - July 1, 1933
Mary McCollum		Jan 12, 1868 - Dec 3, 1959
(double stone)

Lacy D. Midgett		Apr 19, 1880 - Feb 23, 1960
Minnie B. Midgett		Feb 15, 1883 - [no death date]
(double stone)

James T. Nichols		1863 - 1936
Sarah G. Nichols		1873 - 1952
(double stone)

W. A. Robinson		Feb 11, 1848 (unsure about the "4")
				Dec. 10, 1919

Nell Midgett Stephens		June 30, 1909
				March 28, 1931

Kate C. Stubblefield		Feb. 21, 1861
				Apr 20, 1949
				"In loving memory of our mother"

Velcie Midgett Swann		Apr 14, 1905
				Oct 10, 1942
				"Mother"

Elizabeth I. Trice		Apr 5, 1852
				Oct 20, 1928
	          "We to thee erect this stone, consecrated by our love"

Samuel W. McCollum and his wife Mary moved to the Fordtran/Nursery area
of Victoria County, Texas, ca early 1900s.  They were the parents of six 
children:  Eunice, Ernest, Leonard, Edward, all born in Tennessee, and 
Macie Belle and Benthal, both born in Texas.

Lacy D. and his wife, Minnie Belle (Brady) Midgett, had six children: 
Claude Herbert, Velcie, Wayland, then twins Nina Belle and Ina Nell, and
Beatrice.  Velcie Midgett married a Mr. Swann and she is buried in the 
Nursery Cemetery.  Ina Nell Midgett married Carl H. Stephens 9 June 1929
and she is buried in the Nursery Cemetery.  Lacy D. Midgett was a school
teacher in San Marcos, Hays County, Texas about 1910, and then a super-
intendent of schools in Matagorda County, Texas by 1920.

Macie Belle McCollum, the daughter of Samuel W. and Mary McCollum, married
Claude Herbert Midgett, the son of Lacy D. and Minnie B. (Brady) Midgett.
There were the parents of six children (none of this family are interred 
at Nursery).  Their oldest child was a son, Willie Leroy, and I am his 
daughter.

Minnie Belle Brady was the daughter of James Samuel and his wife, Martha
Isabelle (Beavers) Brady.  James Samuel Brady and his wife, Martha, had 
fourteen children:  Lloyd, Fannie, William, Adolphus J., Minnie Belle, 
Hattie, Lillian, Mattie, Nellie, Effie, Harry, Maud, Stella Pearl, and 
Jesse Edgar.  Adolphus J. and his wife, Mamie, are also buried in the 
Nursery Cemetery.

The parents of Lacy D. Midgett were Hugh M. and Sarah C. (Buchanan) Midgett. 
They are both interred at the Fordtran Cemetery, just a few miles from the 
Nursery Cemetery.  Manerva E. (Badgett) Midgett, wife of Henry A. Midgett
and parents to Hugh M. Midgett, is also buried at Fordtran Cemetery.  
Many others of the Buchanan, Midgett and related families are buried at 
Fordtran.

[Note:  W. A. Robinson, Elizabeth I. Trice, and Kate C. Stubblefield are 
buried in a row next to each other, near Adolphus and Mamie Brady.  While
a relationship is not positively known, it is believed that the wife of
Adolphus J. Brady, Mamie, was a Trice.]