a.k.a. Harry-Sanders, Old Augustus M. Carson Place
Pollok, Texas
Location: Driving directions This site was formerly the old Augustus Marion Carson homeplace, in Pollok, Angelina County, Texas, This property was part of a six hundred and forty acre tract out of the Thomas Stovall Survey and had been in the Carson family since Decembe of 1862 until it sold recently.This site is located in a cattle pasture but the current owner appears to be maintaining the marked graves.History of site Source: Rootsweb Submitted by Joann Burnside Townsend - August 2000In 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. There were probably many additional graves that are unknown. 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. CARSON CEMETERY KNOWN BURIALSCARSON, Augustus Marion 1 Apr 1811 - 4 Oct 1885 (no marker)CARSON, Louisa Adelaid (Hicks) 16 Nov 1820 - 23 Oct 1875 (no marker)CARSON, Victor Leonidas (Jim) b. 28 Feb 1844 d. after Civil War - CSACARSON, John Paul 24 Jan 1860 (no marker) CARSON, William Hicks b. ca 1857 - 5 Apr. 1904 (his burial uncertain-no marker)HARRY, Emma Augusta (CARSON) 5 Mar 1846 - (Marker, but no dates) wife of Edwin Reece Harry & dau. of A. M. & L. A. H. CarsonHARRY, Edwin A. - b. 20 Oct. 1868 (marker, but no dates) son of E. R. & Emma A. (Carson) HarrySANDERS, Glenn Knox 11 Feb 1883 - 16 Oct 1884 son of E. Green & Mary Adelaid (Carson) Sanders.
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