Cypress Creek Cemetery

Real County

Location: 7 mi. NE of Leakey on US 83; .25 mi. E on Cypress Creek Road.

Historical Marker:Established in the 1870s, Cypress Creek cemetery served a scattered community of pioneers along Cypress Creek in what was then Bandera County before the founding of nearby Leakey in Edwards County. The land on this site belonged to settler John Bunyan Stidham, Sr., whose son, John Bunyan Stidham, Jr., gave land for a school nearby.
Legend surrounds this graveyard. The earliest grave in the cemetery is believed to be that of four-year-old James Beauford Bybee (1875-1879). His burial site is marked by two flat rocks in the ground according to Bybee family practice. Records indicate that the second burial is that of Polly A. Smart (1847-1881).
Also buried here is Laura (Turner) Stidham, wife of John Bunyan Stidham, Jr. She and their son Alonzo (b. 1877) were killed when a tornado destroyed their home in 1927. They were buried in a common grave marked only with stones. The graves of several infants and children bear witness to the harsh conditions of pioneer life. Ten known veterans of U. S. and foreign conflicts are interred here.
The cemetery contains more than 75 marked and many unmarked graves. Still in use in 1998, Cypress Creek Cemetery continues to serve the descendants of the pioneer settlers of Real County. (1998)

Documental by Marjorie Kellner - Photos by Sherman 2 & 3

Cemetery Sign

Banta
... Banta, Alice S - 1876-1941
... Banta, Baby
... Banta, Caleb W - Nov 24, 1986 - Sept 1, 1994
... Banta, Chester D - Aug 11, 1924 -Oct 3, 1987
... Banta, Denny Joe - Apr 7, 1933 - Apr 16, 2000
... Banta, Josephine Catherine - Nov 18, 1898 - Jan 27, 1953
... Banta, John Frank Sr - Sep 9, 1894 -Jan 15, 1973
... Banta, John Frank Jr - Mar 7, 1929 -Oct 8, 1990
... Banta, Lester Lee - Aug 11, 1924 -Nov 21, 1982
... Banta, Ophelia M -(nee Kellner) -May 31, 1930-May 29, 1997

Blevins
... Blevins, Gilletha - May 12, 1851-Apr 1, 1926
... Blevins, John Ceamon - Jan 10, 1850 - Mar 29, 1888

Brock, 3 infants

Brown, Albert H - Sept 21, 1925 - Aug 4, 2008

Bybee
... Bybee, James Beauford - 1875 - 1879
... Bybee, Phoebe Jane Jewell - May 6, 1837 - Mar 27, 1916
... Bybee, William Jefferson - Sep 28, 1835 - Mar 17, 1914

Carson, Mary F - 1852 - Apr 5, 1919

Chisum
... Chisum, Alfred Willis - Apr 27, 1879 - Dec 31, 1949
... Chisum, George Wilson - June 2, 1919 - Jul 31, 1953
... Chisum, Gloria - Oct 27, 1926 - Nov 16, 1938
... Chisum, Infant of Alfred & Jennie
... Chisum, 2 infants of Roy & Hertha
... Chisum, Jack Vernon - Jan 8, 1923 -Jun 2, 1950
... Chisum, Jennie (nee Stidham) - Apr 22, 1882 - Oct 16, 1957
... Chisum, Oscar G - 1919 - 1959
... Chisum, Roy Tolbert - 1915 - Nov 27, 1972

Cowan, Lillie May - 1875 -1954

Cox, Martha L - Nov 14, 1933 - Oct 10, 1991

Daendliker, Emilie - Sept 2, 1889 - Feb 23, 1982
Daendliker, Louis - Apr 2, 1891 - Feb 12, 1986

Drennan, Donald Howard - Mar 11, 1912 - Jul 30, 1983
Drennan, Jewel Hanson - Jan 28, 1909 - Nov 6, 1987

Gunn
... Gunn, DR. O. D. - 1844 - 1931
... Gunn, Hattie B - May 30, 1909 - Aged 50 years
... Gunn, Sarah Louise -May 26, 1891 - Feb 29, 1906

Haby
... Haby, Elizabeth (nee Hanson) - 1878 - 1931
... Haby, Jacob Albert "Jack" - Apr 8, 1870 - Jul 22, 1946
... Haby, Jacob Oscar - Jun 10, 1909 - May 10, 1977

Hanson
... Hanson, C Ethel - Sept 3, 1884 - Apr 24, 1965
... Hanson, Jacob Albert - Dec 3, 1907 - Jul 31, 1960
... Hanson, J. D. (John Douglas) - Jul 25, 1876 - Feb 24, 1958
... Hanson, John - Dec 22, 1841 - Sept 9, 1929
... Hanson, Lee D. - Jul 28, 1901 - Mar 8, 1911
... Hanson, Martin - June 13, 1880 - July 8, 1940
... Hanson, Mrs. M. C. - Aug 5, 1856 - Aug 9, 1918

Horton
... Horton, Andrew G - Sept 11, 1872 -Dec 21, 1944
... Horton , James Daniel - Aug 29, 1916 - Dec 13, 1998
... Horton, Lynna Lurlene - Jun 9, 1921 -
... Horton, Mary L - June 30, 1889 - Jan 6, 1972

Kellett, Mary E McBeth - Jul 8, 1924 -Aug 7, 1983

Kittinger, Willie Roy - Nov 16, 1899 - Nov 1, 1900

L - stone marker

Leistikow
... Leistikow, William G Jr - Oct 6, 1976 - Feb 8, 1977
... Leistikow, William G - 1953 -1978
... Leistikow, William H - 1934 - 1982

Mann, Tommy Jr - died Dec 24, 1945 (info)

McBeth
... McBeth, Cecile Daendliker - Mar 30, 1921 - Apr 1, 2004
... McBeth, Clyde A - Aug 17, 1925 - Feb 19, 1999
... McBeth, Clyde Acanthus - Sept 10, 1901 - Oct 14, 1976
... McBeth, Mellie Tomerlin - Oct 22, 1904 - Sept 25, 1999


Parks, Roy & Dorothy -

Pendley, Emma B -Aug 4, 1884 - Feb 4, 1965

Putnam, Martha -1933 - 1991

Reynolds, Elizabeth Bybee ca. 1870

Ricks
... Ricks stone marker
... Ricks, Dan - Mar 15, 1855 - Nov 16, 1934
... Ricks, Georgia Virginia - Jun 17, 1901 - Aug 2, 1977
... Ricks, John Albert - Sept 15, 1884 - Sept 1, 1974
... Ricks, Martha - Dec 27, 1857 - Dec 18, 1913

Rogers
... Rogers, Helen Teresa
... Rogers_Ora L. - Nov 5, 1894 - Dec 8, 1976

Russworm, Eliza nee Tomerlin (Mrs George)
Russworm, Infant

Rutland, Jim (info)
Rutland, Leona (info)

Ruiz, Pas culita 1934?

S- stone marker

Shahan
... Shahan, B. D. - Nov 11, 1879 - Feb 12, 1973
... Shahan, Ima G Horton Feb 8, 1914-
... Shahan, Peggy Jo - July 6, 1940 - Mar 17, 2002
... Shahan, Robert Byrd - Nov 1, 1909 - Oct 25, 1972

Sharp, Jim

Shaw, Cecilia M Reyes - July 16, 1963 - Aug 2, 2006

Sheedy, Nolan O - Jun 13, 1929 -Nov 19, 1997

Silvers
... Silvers, Laura S Fessenden Jun 20, 1873 - Sept 11, 1956
... Silvers, William G - July 6, 1870 - Oct 14, 1945

Smart
... Smart, Infant
... Smart, Mary Ann "Polly" - Dec 17, 1847 - Aug 21, 1881
... Smart, P A
... Smart, Polley A PA and Polley A are possibly the same person

Stidham
... Stidham, Alonzo - Sept 12, 1876 - Apr 13, 1927
... Stidham, Ira Mervin - Jan 25, 1898 -Jul 11, 1967
... Stidham, Laura Jane - Feb 12, 1856 - Apr 13, 1927
... Stidham, Louis S - Oct 8, 1878 - Jul 22, 1929
... Stidham, Thomas W - Oct 8, 1878 - Jul 22, 1929

Stockton
... Stockton, Erma Lee Kelly -Oct 7, 1909 - Nov 24, 2000
... Stockton, Hugh Spurgeon Jr - Nov 30, 1912 - Dec 14, 1995

Strickland
... Strickland, George Frances
... Strickland, Leoma V McCartney died Dec 17, 1944
... Strickland, Nelvin Eddy - Oct 6, 1901 - Nov 5, 1979 (info)
... Strickland, Ophelia L P Dees - died Jan 27, 1937

Tomerlin
... Tomerlin, Annie - Mar 26, 1915 -Mar 21, 1929
... Tomerlin, Annie (nee Warren) - Apr 19, 1881-Jan 28, 1909
... Tomerlin, Eddie - Apr 17, 1906 -Nov 17, 1928
... Tomerlin, Elizabeth (nee Jones) - Mar 9, 1840 - Feb 9, 1892
... Tomerlin, George Washington - Mar 5, 1877 - May 13, 1954
... Tomerlin, Howard D. - Jan 21, 1912 - June 7, 1913
... Tomerlin, Rachel T (nee Warren) - Feb 24, 1879 - June 21, 1955
... Tomerlin, Susie Shackleford - Mar 6, 1887 - Feb 6, 1980
... Tomerlin, Sam - Feb 21, 1875 - Mar 24, 1959
... Tomerlin, William Jefferson - Mar 28, 1838 - Aug 10, 1933

Vaughn, Gladys E - Apr 3, 1903 - Jul 13, 1909

Warren
... Warren, Elizabeth Penelope "Bessie" (nee Silvers) - Dec 15, 1898 - Nov 25, 1974
... Warren, John - Apr 16, 1884 - Nov 26, 1903
... Warren, Josephine - Jan 5, 1856 - Jan 9, 1910
... Warren, Tom Perry Jr - Feb 23, 1927 - May 22, 1991
... Warren, Tom Perry Sr - Dec 20, 1892 - Nov 2, 1954

Wilborn, Irene - May 2, 1907 -Mar 4, 1991

 

 


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