Menard County Texas

Waddell Cemetery of Menard County, Texas

NOTE: This Cemetery is on PRIVATE PROPERTY. Must have permission from owner before visiting.

My deepest appreciation goes to the San Angelo Genealogical Society for giving permission to use information which they have published on Menard County, Texas. The Waddell Cemetery was published in their quarterly "Stalkin Kin" in November of 1976, Vol. 4 No. 2, pg. 66.

Stalkin Kin Information on Waddell Cemetery

"The Waddell Cemetery is located in Northwestern Menard County, Texas near Dry Creek. From Junction of U.S. 83 & Texas 29, (in Menard County), go west towards Eldorado on Texas 29 for 7.9 miles. Turn right: (North) on a county road. Follow main road 7.8 miles. Cemetery is north of an abandoned country school building. The cemetery is in the Southwest corner of Rancho Bonito, (owned in 1976 by Art Sears). It is overgrown and nearby brush has been bulldozed. The cemetery was surveyed on October 10, 1976 by J. Tom Meador."

Waddell Cemetery
Name	Birth	Death
Crisp, Cecr S. P. s/o S. D. & M. S. Crisp	July 30, 1895	January 1, 1910
Crisp, Mrs. Martha w/o S. D. Crisp (enclosed in wrought-iron fence)	January 17, 1874	January 1, 1936
Ellis, C. (CSA marker)	March 17, 1840	February 16, 1926
Mary d/o Jas & Kittie Harper (enclosed in wrought-iron fence)	November 4, 1911	August 23, 1914

My Waddell Cemetery Pictures

Additional information on the Waddell Cemetery

"Elkin (Babe) Waddell and his wife, Kate Reeves-Waddell came to Menard County in the early spring of 1904 and settled northwest of present day Menard. Babe Waddell and Willie Roberts built the first school house in that area and it was named the Roberts school." (Later it would be renamed the Waddell School). Source: Menard County History-An Anthology, published in 1982 by Menard Historical Society, pg. 656

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