- There are at least two extinct cemeteries at Port Neches that the writer can recall. One with about twenty graves was located on the southeast corner of the intersection of Rachford and Dearing Streets on land currently occupied by a shell company. That cemetery site was deeded in perpetuity to the State of Texas more than a century ago, as the deed records reveal, but was maliciously bulldozed in 1945 by persons the writer prefers not to name. While the writer was still a soldier, home on leave, in 1946, he saw the site when it had been freshly bulldozed, and broken tombstones were still flattened and above ground. An old man named Palmer, who lived in the last house on Rachford Street, showed me a broken tombstone for Mary Moseley Hillebrand, wife of Lastie Hillebrand, who died in childbirth at age 20 in 1860. Her name is listed in the county mortality census of that year. The cemetery was called the Remley-Hillebrand Cemetery
(W.T. Block)
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Abt 1839 - 1860 (~ 21 years)
