Waller County Texas Archives Cemeteries.....Wade - Partial Survey More to Come ************************************************ 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: Junior McKay jrmckay@consolidated.net July 13, 2012, 6:34 pm Abstracted By: Junior McKay This burial ground was established in 1846 by William Wade, a wealthy plantation owner from Mississippi who came to Texas by the 1820s. He purchased considerable acreage from the Stephen F. Austin's old three hundred colony. By the 1840s, Wade owned over 11,000 acres of Republic of Texas land. His plantation extended from what was then Austin County (now Waller County) to the banks of the Brazos river. Wade brought horses and other livestock to the area, along with many workers. He and Churchill Fulshear were instrumental in the development of the area school and Methodist Episcopal Church South. In the 19th century, it was typical for families who owned large ranches and plantations to establish cemeteries on their property when the first family member died. William's wife, Hulda, died in 1846 and her grave is the earliest in the cemetery. Before he passed away in 1859, William Wade began deeding land to his sons Robert, Thomas, and Alexander. Alexander d. 1915, fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War before settling on his property and marrying Sophronia (Fronie) Bell d. 1925, granddaughter of Josiah Hughes Bell, one of the old three hundred colonists. The couple interred here along with their sons Thaddeus Wade d. 1906, whose grave is marked by a Woodsman of the World gravestone, and James Hall Wade d. 1957, and other family members. In addition to Wade family members, other area residents, including those living in the Brookshire and Fulshear communities, are interred today. The Wade cemetery remains as a testament to the pioneering Wade family and other early settlers of Waller and Fort Bend Counties. The Cemetery is located on private land, originally part of the Wade Plantation. It is now owned by Mr. Ed McMahon who has had all the tombstone markers restored and reset, and the cemetery plot enclosed within a wrought iron fence. All memorials for this cemetery were transcribed for this cemetery as of Dec. 2009. Photographs may be a partial list. Latitude: 29.74905, Longitude: -95.94702 Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hackney Golda 01 Dec 1876 25 sep 1881 Hackney Jessie H Brookshire 18 Mar 1854 10 Oct 1881 Norris Bessie 1877 10 Jul 1889 Norris C W 06 Mar 1838 15 Jun 1916 Norris Fannie C 1885 22 Apr 1898 Norris Nellie 02 Jan 1874 04 Aug 1893 Norris Rosie L 1879 13 Jul 1889 Streper Christian 07 Feb 1864 24 Dec 1902 Wade Alexander 26 Jan 1843 02 Jul 1915 Wade Huldah Ennis Stuart 09 Oct 1805 09 Mar 1846 Wade James Hall 1892 1957 Wade Sophronia Lucenda Bell 23 May 1855 04 Dec 1925 'Fronie' Wade Thaddeus Bell 14 Apr 1886 08 Sep 1906 Wade William 29 Sep 1791 12 Dec 1859 Weinstein Alma Kohl 1915 1967 Weinstein David H 1909 2005 Weinstein Louis 1879 1956 Weinstein Mills Boatman 1945 2004 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/waller/cemeteries/wade148gcm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/txfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb