Angelina County
Cemetery Photographs
Carson
Cemetery
Located on private land, formerly the old Augustus M Carson homeplace
in Pollok, Texas off 69N on the Bodan Creek.
This land was originally a part of a six hundred and forty acre tract out of
the Thomas Stovall Survey and had been in the Carson family since December, 1862 until it
was sold very recently.
In the Spring of 1863, the Carson family moved to the six hundred and forty acres on
the Bodan Creek. Their son, Jim, returned home from the Civil War, having been in a Union
prison in Maryland since 1862. He died sometime before 1875 and was buried in the garden.
Louisa Adelaid (Hicks) Carson, born in North Carolina, was laid to rest October 23, 1875.
Two other sons, John Paul Carson and William Hicks Carson and one daughter, Emma Augusta
Carson Harry, wife of Edwin Reece Harry, Emma's son (a grandson) Edwin A. Harry and
another grandson Glenn Knox Sanders, son of E. Green and Mary Adelaid (Carson) Sanders
were buried in the garden. It is possible that there may be other graves, but they are
unknown to the writer at this time. Augustus Marion Carson, died October 4, 1885.
In the years after the cemetery was not used as a family burying place, part of the
land including the cemetery was rented out to be farmed. The headstones were knocked over
during this time and apparently some were lost. There are only three remaining. It has
been more or less abandoned.
Used with permission.
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Harry, Edwin A |
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Feb 2005 |
Joann Townsend, Debra Pitts and D J |
Harry, Emma Augusta Carson |
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Feb 2005 |
Joann Townsend, Debra Pitts and D J |
Harry, Emma Augusta Carson |
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Feb 2005 |
Joann Townsend, Debra Pitts and D J |
Harry, Emma Augusta Carson |
Image |
Feb 2005 |
Joann Townsend, Debra Pitts and D J |
Harry, Emma Augusta Carson |
Image |
Feb 2005 |
Joann Townsend, Debra Pitts and D J |
Harry, Emma Augusta Carson |
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Feb 2005 |
Joann Townsend, Debra Pitts and D J |
Sanders, Glenn K |
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Feb 2005 |
Joann Townsend, Debra Pitts and D J |
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