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Photos | Veterans Memorial Wall Forest Lawn Memorial Park (honoring both living and deceased Veterans) |
Documents | Court Cause No. 16187: "W.P.H. McFaddin, Jr., et al, vs. Unknown Heirs of Caroline Sparks, et al" 30 Sep 1952 named deceased persons to-wit: Caroline Sparks, Edward Sparks, John L. Sparks, William Sparks, Joseph Sparks, Susan Sparks Crawford, Phillip Crawford, James C. Sparks, Lura Sparks Spriggs, James M. Court, Julia A. Court, James F. Court, Lillian Court Smith, Irvin Smith, Francis Court Sparks, Viola Court Sparks, Madison Court, Sarah A. Court, Edna Court, Beulah Court, a Mrs. E. Bordeman and child... 45.7 acres on T.F. Smith homestead tract; included in league bought by J.S. Johnson in 1924, who later conveyed the property to E.I. DuPont in 1952, at which time private cemetery was discovered. Court proceedings to have the remains relocated. The following family members not named in the suit but were included in cemetery records: in Grave 1 were: Tilda Courts, Homer Courts, Caudine (Claudie) Courts, Estie baby Courts, Carmel Courts, (unknown), Buff Courts, (unknown), James C Sparks Sr, Fred Frugia (unknown), Genevia Frugia), Florence Frugia (unknown), Brad Courts Sr. |
Headstones | Forest Lawn Memorial Park Garden of Meditation feature | |
Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Section A standing at Harvey Jones Sr grave facing south | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Section A standing at Harvey Jones Sr grave facing north | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, grounds | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Garden of Mediation; grave about center with vase up is Runie "Tack" Jones. From that point next to her going toward the street is Ogden Kyle Jones and then next to him is Lillian Courts Jones. From Tack's grave, with the vase up, on the other side, the next two unmarked are the gravesites of Freeda Grace Rowley Ritter and husband Gary Rad Ritter; then next to Gary Rad with a headstone is Cody Allen Ritter. | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Center Entrance | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Pine Street at Lucas Street entrance | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Lucas at Pine Street Entrance | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Parmley, Wilford Otis | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Jones, Lillian Courts Garden of Devotion 4959 Pine Street Beaumont, Texas | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Ely, Nona Emma Carr | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Heiman, Marion | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Jones, Harvey Mabry, Sr Section A | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Courts, Hal O, Sr. | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Courts, Lirlene Goode | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Heckford, Esther "Tack" Jones 4959 Pine St Beaumont, Texas | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Jones, Estes Clyde | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Jones, Estes Clyde standing at Clyde Jones' grave facing west. | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Jones, Estes Clyde standing at Clyde Jones' grave facing east. | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Moyer, Elizabeth Deaton | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Moyer, Lynda Elizabeth | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Moyer, Rose Mae Snider | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Moyer, William Arthur | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Ritter, Cody Allen | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Jones, Ogden Kyle, Jr. 4959 Pine Street Beaumont, Texas | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Jones, Ogden Kyle, Sr. Garden of Devotion 4959 Pine Street Beaumont, Texas | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Moyer, Raymond Lee 4959 Pine Street Beaumont, Texas | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Moyer, Robert Earl Garden of Meditation 4959 Pine Street Beaumont, Texas | ||
McFaddin Cemetery - TF Smith Homestead Grave 1 COURTS, Edna Bordeman - m James Bradley Courts (s/o Elias (Matt) Courts (s/o James & Julia) BORDEMAN, E. Mrs. (unknown - no male Bordeman found with spouse E.) BORDEMAN, (child) (unknown) COURTS, Edna Bordeman - dup of Edna Bordeman Courts COURTS, Tilda (Matilda Grace Gibson m James Franklin Courts) she died 1925) COURTS, Homer (s/of James Franklin & Matilda Grace - died 1918) COURTS, Caudine (Claudie) - died 1916 COURTS, Estie Baby (Claudie's baby) COURTS, Carmel - unknown COURTS, Buff - unknown | ||
McFaddin Cemetery - TF Smith Homestead Forest Lawn Index Card on occupants of graves. | ||
McFaddin Cemetery - TF Smith Homestead
1952 Article Beaumont Enterprise; "Early Burials Found on Neches"; "One of Area Private Cemeteries Uncovered on DuPont Tract" | ||
McFaddin Cemetery - TF Smith Homestead McFaddin Cemetery was located on property south of Beaumont, in Port Neches, Central Gardens at a location within the grounds of where DuPont is now. The cemetery was discovered in the Fifties, and due to the impending construction of the plant. (See attached newspaper coverage). There were about 30 people buried there whose remains were subsequently placed in four separate concrete boxes and relocated to Forest Lawn Cemetery where they were laid once again to rest in the Garden of Peace section. The headstones for the four graves are all identical, reading simply "TF Smith Homstead Tract Cemetery." The detailed list of occupants only exist on an index card in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park records (see copy attached). All of these people were either residents or descendants of the Sparks Settlement, also called Aurora, (what later became Port Arthur. The families were predominantly the Sparks, Courts and Gentz families and other family names who married into these families. Sparks Settlement was abandoned in late 1800s due to storms and disease; even the houses were moved. Most of them started another community in the Port Neches, Central Gardens area where they started a new cemetery - i.e. what was called the McFaddin Cemetery. Sparks Cemetery was also abandoned. The occupants of that cemetery, those who died while the community was active, were never moved; only recognized by a historical marker placed in a boulevard on DeQueen at Lakeshore (see photo). There is some false information on the Internet that the remains in Sparks Cemetery were removed to Forest Lawn. But what I have been able to discover is that is not the case. It is the later cemetery, McFaddin Cemetery, that was removed. There is also some belief that the cemetery was used even into the 1920s for burial needs; but that also seems to be mistaken information. The were fine and strong and brave pioneers who I am so proud to call my ancestors. They helped build our community here, and somehow, I hope to bring to mind the signifcance of those four plain little headstones marked simply "TF Smith Homestead Tract Cemetery." | ||
McFaddin, TF Smith Homestead, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Garden of Peace Section | ||
McFaddin, TF Smith Homestead, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Garden of Peace Section | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Moyer, Arthur Leslie | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Moyer, Arthur Leslie | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Jones, Ogden Kyle, Jr. | ||
Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Arthur L. Moyer and Mildred "Milly" Parrish Moyer (not deceased) |
Matches 201 to 215 of 215
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Burial | Person ID | ||
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201 | Vieno, August Harold "Red" | 23 May 1951 | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I17571 |
202 | Vieno, Dorothy | I987 | ||
203 | Vieno, Robert Roy | 08 Oct 1950 | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I22934 |
204 | Walsh, John J. | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I32058 | |
205 | Ward, Thomas Henry | 04 Nov 1963 | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I25091 |
206 | Weaver, Elsie Elner | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I38771 | |
207 | West, Gordon Allen | 07 Aug 1966 | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I25840 |
208 | Will, Minnie Mae | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I16210 | |
209 | Willard, Esther Mae | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I80150 | |
210 | Wingate, Estella | 02 Aug 1972 | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I22005 |
211 | Wingate, Ferrell Eva Mary | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I21993 | |
212 | Wingate, John Stone | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I21604 | |
213 | Wingate, Ruben Martin | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I21994 | |
214 | Wright, Prentice Cummings | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I94117 | |
215 | Zorn, Herman Albert Robert (immigrant) | Mar 1975 | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas | I22532 |