Hello; I'm so excited!!! Houston Co. got a grant to help clean up 80 endangers cemeteries. Mon. 3 groups of youngsters will start with rakes, weed eaters, hoes, etc to get started. Our county Judge Lonnie Hunt has worked hard to get the money for this project. Alton Moore has contacted land owners where many of these cemeteries are located. With the help of Mr. Hite's survey done several years ago these cemeteries have been put in order to get them done. Houston Co. has around 300 cemeteries. Alton is spreading the word on how important it is to get these cemeteries designated with Texas Historical Comm.

Today is Houston Co's. Birthday, oldest county in Texas. A Tribute to Eliza Bishop who has been Houston Counties historian for 60+ years. She has done many great things for this county.

Sat. some of our 261 historical markers will be cleaned up & repainted. Our "Adopt a Marker," is working. Houston Co. Historical Comm. is really doing a great job bring this to the public. hchc@co.houston.tx.us

Marty, Please pass on our congratulations and thanks to all involved in preserving our heritage.

If possible, could you post a list of the cemeteries that are cleaned up.

Thanks for posting this news.

Indeed that is good news.

This is so wonderful to hear. Thank you, Judge Lonnie Hunt for working to get this grant and thank the young people of your county for "getting the job done."

Also, thank Alton Moore and Mr. Hite for their help. And, thank you, Marty Cash, for sharing the good news with everyone at rootsweb.

Happy birthday, Houston County and thanks to Eliza Bishop for the historical record keeping for 60+ years.

My Gray and Willis ancestors lived in Antrim Community, attended Antrim School, and some are buried at the Antrim Cemetery.

I will be happy to send you the list. Please e-mail hchc@co.houston.tx.us & put list of cemeteries to be cleaned up on subject line. I will be happy to send you the list, pictures, & more info about the cemeteries we all hope that will be cleaned up. With all this being made aware to the public folks may take more interest in keeping cemeteries kept cleaned up. We are getting request to register some with Texas Historical Comm.
The Houston Co. “B” day party we learned more about the Camino Real and current research offered by the Stone Fort Museum. Jeffery Williams, Landscape
Geographer and GIS Systems Administrator in the Arthur Temple College of Forestry & Agriculture at Stephen F. Austin State University, outlined his ongoing research on the historic trace and the new mapping efforts related to identifying trail resources
in his presentation: El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail: Royal Road to the Caddo. The series of lectures are part of the Camino Real Heritage Education Project
funded by the National Park Service – Intermountain Region. To learn more about the public lectures, visit our website at www.sfasu.edu/stonefort or contact Museum staff at 936-468-2408.
Through contacts of our chair person Maxine Moore, 5 members from Houston Co. Historical Comm. travel 2 days for a class held by Dr. Perky Beisel of Stephen F. Austin University telling about the grant the City of Nacogdoches/SFASU. We spent several very hot hours in that city cemetery. Dr. Beisel visited in Houston Co. after the class to get us started on what she wants. A large group from Preserve America visited with HCHC. I feel they were impressed with all the info we can help them with historic community cemeteries along the El Camino Real corridor.
We encourage all counties to attend the 13th annual Angelina College Genealogy Conference in Lufkin next month.

Sat. June 13, 6 women & 1 male, members of the Democratic Club of Houston Co. cleaned & repainted 8 historical markers. I’ve had a call from a Republican women wanting to paint a make or 2. A owner of a hog farm is painting several, so you don’t have to have a group, just wants to give a marker a face lift.
In the near future a Scout group will do 25 individual markers in Glenwood Cemetery, Crockett. So getting this out has helped.