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MARTIN COUNTY, TEXAS TXGenWeb |
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Hopper Cemetery
1 Mile South of the Post Office in Lenorah, located in the field
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 Baby Girl Hopper Vida Mae Hopper Age 3 Years Died 1933 |
 Unmarked Grave Raymond "Tommy" Hopper Age 7 Years Died Abt. 1933 |
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History of
the cemetery can be found in the book, by Sheriff Dan Saunders:
"Trails and Trials"
The Lenorah Cemetery |
| A little over a mile south of the post
office at Lenorah on the west side of the road abt. thirty feet lies a lonely little
cemetery where only the remains of two children are at rest. The small hallowed space is marked with a cross tie at each corner...... I remember well when in 1933 the little Hopper girl died in the home of her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Will Hopper, who lived on the Herman Deavenport farm a little more than a mile south of Lenorah on the west side of the road. ... In two or three months little Raymond "Tommy" Hopper died with scarlet fever and he was buried in the same plot beside his baby sister. Raymond was seven years old at the time, and I went to the funeral with my mother. Earl Evans was the star route mail carrier, but also a great gospel singer and lay preacher and he "preached" the funeral.... In 1939 Mr. Silas Green Gregg who lived just west of the Cottonwood Grocery passed away and he was buried in the Hopper plot.... later on in 1948, Mr. Gregg's remains were exhumed and he was re-interred at the then-New Trinity Memorial Cemetery south of Big Spring. I interviewed the oldest Hopper son, Willie Lester, by phone at his home in Goldsmith, and again in person at the 'Old Soreheads Trades Days' in Stanton on October 9, 1994. He stated that his little sister was named Vida Mae and she died with the stomach ache. He stated she was three years old, and as I stated earlier, "Tommy" was seven. Willie Lester says there was no one else buried in the plot until Green Gregg died |