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CEMETERY NAME: Dees grave ADDITIONAL/ALTERNATE NAMES: BCHC CEMETERY ID NUMBER: 32 THC CEMETERY NUMBER: BQ-C075 THC ATLAS NUMBER: 7035007505 HISTORICAL DESIGNATION: none NEAREST CITY OR COMMUNITY: USGS 7-1/2 MINUTE QUAD MAP: Laguna Park? (3197-432?) LATITUDE: 0.00000000 LONGITUDE: 0.00000000 SURVEY NAME AND ABSTRACT NUMBER: | |
| MAP LOCATION: location unknown and unmappable BCHC DIRECTIONS: THC DIRECTIONS: Exact location unknown. Said to be near Towash-Clifton Road and Towash Meridian Road. BCHC 1985 CEMETERY BOOK: Vol. I, pg. 187Note: The two-volume Bosque County Cemetery Records listed all known cemeteries and all persons buried in these cemeteries at the time of publication. The information included dates from the gravestones and, in some cases, the inscriptions from the gravestones. Although these volumes are now out-of-print, they are available for reference at the Bosque County Collection, and the information contained in these volumes has been converted to an online database searchable by name. NUMBER OF GRAVES: 1 click here to list burials\nLINK TO TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION ATLAS DETAILS: THC Atlas Web Page LINK TO FIND-A-GRAVE ENTRY: Find-A-Grave Web Page NOTES: Many stories are told of cowboys killed on the cattle drives of the 1870's through Bosque County and buried on the spot. This one is a little different. Thomas O'Connor was on a cattle drive for his uncle, Dennis O'Connor of Victoria. While passing through Bosque County about 1872 near the residence of a man named King, about twenty miles east of Meridian, a quarrel occurred between him and his boss, John Dees, and the latter was killed. Dees was buried nearby. The exact location is not known but was somewhere near the Towash-Clifton Road, and the Towash-Meridian road and the house of the King, probably the King who named King Creek. As late as 1895, this grave seemed to be well-known enough to be mentioned in the Commissioner's Court Records ("the old traveled road near the grave of Dees"). Thomas O'Conner was brought before the court in Bosque County but was released because of flaws in the indictment. In 1889, he was re-arrested, tried, and sentenced for life. He was pardoned Christmas 1904. Sources: Meridian Tribune, January 6, 1905; County Commissioners Records, Book F, pp.22-23 & 52-53 |
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