GC59YTA Ghosts of Texas: Squaw Creek Cemetery (Traditional Cache) in Texas, United States created by HoustonControl

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HoustonControl: I was in the area today and stopped to check on this one. The gate to access the cemetery has been converted to an automated opener with a keypad. Not knowing the combination, it makes it difficult for me (or anyone else) to access. Thanks to all who visited!

GC59YTA ▼

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Hidden : 7/29/2014

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Another historic cemetery in the beautiful Texas Hill Country!

Enter off of Nixon Cemetery Rd. at the gate marked 751. You'll have to ford Squaw Creek to get there, which is usually a trickle but may be deeper if it has rained recently.

We were exploring the NW part of the county when this cemetery popped up on my Nuvi map. We found the hidden entrance, then spent the better part of an hour exploring the place and noting the markers for Find-a-Grave. Interesting history here as noted on the historical marker:

"On their way west from Arkansas to California about 1856, the family of Francis Marion Nixon and his wife, Catherine Elliot, was forced to detour south from the North Texas Plains to this area to obtain water and forage for their livestock. After first camping on a hill near the Mason/Gillespie County line, thereafter referred to as Nixon Point, they settled in this section of Gillespie County during the 1860s. The Nixon's son, Andrew Jackson Nixon, and his wife, Lurana Wooten, built their home in this vicinity and with their fourteen children formed the nucleus of the community of Squaw Creek. Marriages by their descendants added the names Baethge, Ratto, Strackbein, Mund, Faught, and Gibson to the extended Nixon family line. The Squaw Creek Cemetery grounds were a part of a 110-acre conveyance from A. J. Nixon to his brother-in-law, Henry Strackbeing, in 1872. The first recorded interment is that of Elizabeth Gibson in 1873. The first legal mention of the cemetery occurs in a deed executed by Adolph Strackbein in 1914. Of the approximately 60 interments here, most are members of the extended Nixon family. The burials include those of American Civil War and World War I veterans."

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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Geocache Description:

Another historic cemetery in the beautiful Texas Hill Country!

Enter off of Nixon Cemetery Rd. at the gate marked 751. You'll have to ford Squaw Creek to get there, which is usually a trickle but may be deeper if it has rained recently.

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Ghosts of Texas: Squaw Creek Cemetery Traditional Cache

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Geocache Description:

Another historic cemetery in the beautiful Texas Hill Country!

Enter off of Nixon Cemetery Rd. at the gate marked 751. You'll have to ford Squaw Creek to get there, which is usually a trickle but may be deeper if it has rained recently.

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