Waller County Texas Archives Cemeteries.....Wyatt Chapel - Partial Survey More to Come
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Junior McKay jrmckay@consolidated.net August 23, 2012, 7:18 am

Abstracted By: Junior McKay

This cemetery is located on land that was originally part of
Jared E. Kirby's Alta Vista Plantation. According to oral 
tradition, the Kirby family set aside this land as a burial
site for their slaves, as well as slaves from nearby Liendo
 Plantation, owned by Kirby's cousin, Leonard Waller Croce.
The numerous unmarked graves here are believed to date to the 
Antebellum period, when most slaves would not have had the
resources to erect lasting grave markers. The cemetery
continued to
 be used by African Americans after the Civil War ands after
Kirby's widow, Helen Marr Swearingen Kirby, deeded the
plantation
 to the state in 1876 for the Alta Vista College for Colored
Youth (now Prairie View A&M University). Later, the cemetery 
became associated with and named for Wyatt Chapel, a nearby
African American church. The oldest marked grave is that of
Mattie (Wyatt) Wells (d. 1882), the daughter of a former
slave. Area religious leaders, veterans of World Wars I and
II, and former 
slaves and their descendants are also buried here. Used
until the 1950s, the cemetery remains a tangible reminder of
African 
Americans' historic presence in this area.

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 30.10354, Longitude: -95.98665

Last Name     First Name    Middle Name   Birth        Death        Comment
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Bailey        Eslie                       31 Mar 1892  19 May ....  
Brown         G E                                      27 Dec 1950  
Colling       Albert                                   05 Jul 1922  
Ducksworth    James                       11 Nov 1900  03 Sep 1959  
Felder        Luther        B             1926         1948         
Wells         Mattie        Wyatt                      1882         
Wilson        Milo          Jr            22 Jul 1892  08 Nov 1953  
Wyatt         Mamie                                    17 Mar ....  



Additional Comments:
All memorials have been photographed for this cemetery as of 12/2009.

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