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BREWER FAMILY CEMETERY


Located on William T. Brewer's headright north of the Prairieville Community, graves are on a small rise in a grove of mesquite trees.

As of 2005 when the site was last inspected, cattle have desecrated the site, knocking over and breaking tombstones.

Enumeration:

All the tombstones, except R M Scott's, are marked "Roseborough & Sons- St Louis, Missouri"


NAMEBIRTHDEATHMISC INFO / INSCRIPTIONS
William T Brewer10 Feb 179822 Jul 1854( actually died 1852)
Bethany Brewer8 Mar 180815 Oct 1857*NOTE BELOW
Julia A Brewer20 Feb 18408 Jan 1858(d/o R M & Matilda)
Susie A Brewer4 Jan 184215 Dec 1850(d/o R M & Matilda)
Allie J Scott27 Oct 18621 Nov 1879 
R M ScottDates illegible ( stone broken & chipped)
(Robert Malcolm Scott -h/o Matilda Brewer)
(Mary "Elizabeth" Carter Brewer )17 Apr 183427 May 1869(stone broken)
**NOTE BELOW

*NOTE: Bethany Brewer's tombstone was stolen from the site between 1997 and 1999.  It was seen there in 1997 by K K Hunt and the Brewer family, and according to Ruth Riley Peavey  in "Cemetery records of Henderson & Surrounding Counties", it was seen by Peavy and she incorrectly transcribed Bethany Brewer's date of death Oct 15, 1857.  The death year was proven to be 1867 thru probate records in March 1999 by Arlene Garey & Jody Brewer.

**NOTE: This stone was found in the mud on 22 Feb 2005.  By the dates it is known to be the tombstone of Kinion Kendrick Brewer's first wife, Mary Elizabeth Carter McCorkle Brewer.  She married K K Brewer in 1867 - they had a daughter, Mary Louisa, born February 1869 and Elizabeth died from complications of that birth.   She was daughter of Joseph Carter & Louisa Saunders of Van Zandt County, and the widow of John F McCorkle when she married Kinion Brewer.  A search was made for the top portion of the marker 22 Feb 2005, but it was not found.

Some Info per Arlene Garey & Jody Brewer
Enumerated 22 Feb 2005 - K K Hunt & Joni Hunt




This Kaufman County page was created on September 7, 1999.
Updated February 23, 2005.

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