Image:Claiborne Cemetery (Bastrop, TX) - marker.jpg

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Place
Claiborne Cemetery, Bastrop, Bastrop, Texas, United States
People
Moses Gage1796 - 1867
Elizabeth Goodwin1802 - 1859
Gabriella GageAbt 1822 -
Sherley Gage1822 - 1850
John BlackAbt 1820 -
Agnes C Black1812 - 1852
Ludwell RectorAbt 1810 - Aft 1852
Martha Jane Black1853 - 1936
John Dyer Claiborne1847 - 1916
Samuel CraftAbt 1800 -
Reuben Gage

CLAIBORNE CEMETERY

UPON ARRIVING IN TEXAS, MOSES GAGE FIRST SETTLED HIS FAMILY IN BASTROP AND THEN BOUGHT 100 ACRES ALONG ALUM CREEK FROM HIS FATHER, REUBEN, IN 1837. OTHERS JOINED THE GAGES AND A SMALL COMMUNITY SOON FORMED. THE SETTLEMENT CAME TO BE KNOWN AS CRAFT'S PRAIRIE, PROBABLY FOR THE FAMILY OF EARLY AREA SETTLER SAMUEL CRAFT.

GEORGIA NATIVE JOHN BLACK ARRIVED IN BASTROP COUNTY IN 1836, AND IN 1842 HE MARRIED MOSES AND ELIZABETH GAGE'S DAUGHTER, GABRIELLA. BLACK, ALONG WITH HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW LUDWELL RECTOR, PURCHASED ALMOST 2,000 ACRES ALONG ALUM CREEK, INCLUDING THIS SITE, IN 1849. GABRIELLA BLACK'S BROTHER, SHERLY GAGE, DIED ON NOVEMBER 19, 18501, AND HE WAS LAID TO REST HERE, ON A GENTLE RISE ON THE WEST BANK OF LITTLE ALUM CREEK. A CEMETERY WAS SOON FORMED AS MEMBERS OF THE BLACK, RECTOR AND GAGE FAMILIES WERE BURIED IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE SITE. OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CRAFT'S PRAIRIE SETTLEMENT BEGAN TO USE THE CEMETERY REGULARLY DURING THE LATE 1800s.

IN 1882, JOHN AND GABRIELLA BLACK GAVE LAND ON WHICH THE CEMETERY SITS TO THEIR DAUGHTER MARTHA JANE, WIFE OF JOHN DYER CLAIBORNE. THE CLAIBORNES ARE BURIED IN THE CEMETERY, AND BEFORE MARTHA CLAIBORNE DIED IN 1936, SHE OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHED A CEMETERY AT THIS SITE, WHICH SHE CALLED "BLACK-CLAIBORNE-RECTOR CEMETERY." AN ANNUAL FAMILY REUNION WAS BEGUN IN 1947, AND ATTENDEES FORMED CLAIBORNE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, WHICH OVERSEES THE SITE. THE CEMETERY CONTINUES TO BE USED TODAY BY AREA RESIDENTS AND BY DESCENDANTS OF THE BLACK, CLAIBORNE AND RECTOR FAMILIES.

HISTORIC TEXAS CEMETERY 2002
HISTORIC PROPERTY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS

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  • 1Information for Sherly Gage does not match the inscription on his headstone, which spells his name as "Sherley" and lists a death date of "November 9, 1850." --Cos1776 15:37, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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