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M O N T G O M E R Y C E M E T E R Y [aka
MONTGOMERY- BUSH CEMETERY] Austin County, Texas
Ceremony of Dedication as a Historic Texas Cemetery 15 September 2007 When your children ask in time to come, "What do those stones
mean to you?" then you shall tell them
that...these stones shall be ...a memorial forever. Joshua 4: 6a-7 Posting of the Colors and
Pledges to the U.S. and Texas flags [American
Legion post 115 and VFW post 6522] Pledge to the Texas flag, as
recently amended: Honor the Texas flag; I pledge
allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one
and indivisible. Opening Prayer
[Rev. Cathy Cochran Mordecai] Introduction of officers of the Montgomery-Bush Cemetery
Association Drusilla Cochran
Sheldon president Robert
Paxton Pinkney vice president Gaye
McNutt secretary Curtis
Thomas Cochran treasurer Troy W.
Byler member-at-large of executive committee Introduction of special guests [Please hold
applause until all have been introduced.] Welcoming of other guests and organizations Secretarys Report and Treasurers Report History of the Land
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Introduction of persons buried and Recognition of descendants [The 20 people
buried here are shown in red.] BUSH [Bob Pinkney] Eustacia A. (Bush) Pearson [wife of W.H. Pearson] Zillah N. (Sherrill) Bush [wife of William Tandy
Bush] Judith A. (Thacker) Bush [wife of Nathan W. Bush] MONTGOMERY [Dru Sheldon] Isaac Montgomery Martha (McClure) Montgomery MONTGOMERY [Irad McGrady Cochran] McGrady Montgomery Minerva (Lucas) Montgomery Sarah Lue Cochran
[daughter of
Nehemiah & Florence (Montgomery) Cochran] COLLINS [Annabel Crow] John Howard Collins [husband of Taglioni (Cochran)
(Collins) Bush] Malinda (Collins) Cochran [1st wife of
Nehemiah Cochran] Mary Frances (Collins) (Wallis) McNeese Johnathan Q. Wallis (1st husband of Mary
Frances) John Price Collins McNUTT [Gaye McNutt] Robert Brice McNutt [husband of Elizabeth Bush] Sarah J. McNutt CRUMP [Kathy Copeland] Nathaniel Richardson Crump Harriett Ingram (Deggs) Crump CRUMP [Peggy Tombs] James Waddie Crump [husband of America (Montgomery)
Crump] William H. Crump George Patrick Crump BELL [Joy Neely] Eddie Bell Frankie Bell Recognition of certain attendees: Relatives (but not
descendants) of those buried here Oldest living
descendant Youngest living descendant Largest number of
ancestors buried here |
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Announcements Dedication and
Unveiling of the Historic Texas Cemetery marker [Grace Holtkamp] Closing Prayer [Rev. Cathy Cochran Mordecai] Retire the
Colors Open Cemetery gates Dedication and Unveiling of
medallions and gravestones War of 1812 Veteran [Mary Glenn and Esther Biggers, U.S. Daughters of 1812,
Texas State President and Texas State Chaplain] Texas Revolution Veteran [Lois Welch, representing Clara Driscoll Chapter,
Daughters of the Republic of Texas] Citizens of Republic of Texas [Nita Wilkenson, member of Committee for Marking Relics, Old
Trails & Historic Sites, Daughters of the Republic of Texas] Confederate Veterans [Peggy Tombs, Honorary President, Texas Division,
United Daughters of the Confederacy] Open visitation of the cemetery
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Monetary Contributors: Montgomery
Cochran (Nehemiah) Family: Curtis Thomas Cochran, Florene Cochran
Trust Fund, Dr. Irad McGrady Cochran, James Murphy Cochran, John Fielding
Cochran Jr. Trust Fund, Susan Sheldon Crysler, Jack Clifton Jordan, Rev. Cathy Cochran
Mordicai, Mary White Peticolas, Drusilla Chase Sheldon, Drusilla Cochran
Sheldon, Joan Cochran Terrell, Bradley Rhodes Gifford, grandchildren
& great grandchildren of John Fielding Cochran Sr. Montgomery
Crump Family: Kathy Copeland, J. Ford Griggs,
Elizabeth Morris, Peggy Tombs, William Lucas Crump Jr. Montgomery
Reese Family: Pat Tottenham Johnson, Kathyrine Reese
Jones, Kathyrine Jones Simank Bush
Family (Taglioni Cochran): John Bush, Julia Suggs Cazayous, Eula Bush Chance, Claudia
Heidbreder, Loma Chance Hobson, Janet Mangin, Kenneth Mann Jr., Robert Paxton Pinckney,
Becky McDonald Walenciak Collins
Family (Taglioni Cochran): Annabel Clemons Crow McNutt
Family: Frank Andrew Klahn, Gaye McNutt, Tom C.
McNutt, Connie McNutt Stone, Linda Sue McNutt Wyatt Others: Clara Driscoll Chapter of Daughters of
the Republic of Texas Your tombstone stands among the
rest Neglected and alone The name and date are chiseled out On polished marble stone It reaches out to all who care It is too late to mourn You did not know that I exist You died and I was born Yet each of us are cells of you In flesh and blood and bone Our blood contracts and beats a
pulse Entirely not our own Dear Ancestor, the place you filled One hundred years ago Spreads out among the ones you
left Who would have loved you so I wonder if you lived and loved I wonder if you knew That some day I would find this
spot And come to visit you. [Author Unknown] Pictures and description of the cemetery (and the
restoration) available on the internet www.pamcrump.com/genealogy/montgomery_cemetery.htm |
