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TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS

​Claiborne Cemetery

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Marker Text: ​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, 1850, 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 here through the 1860s. Also, approximately thirty slaves belonging to the 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 Claibourne. the Claibournes are buried in the cemetery, and before Martha Claibourne 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 Claibourne Cemetery Association, which oversees the site. the cemetery continues to be used today by area residents and by descendants of the black, Claibourne and Rector families. (2002) 
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Marker No: 16633
Texas Historic Cemetery Marker
Geographic: 30.05140, -97.23994
Location: From intersection of Highway 95 & Highway 71 in Bastrop, go 5.3 miles east, turn right 1.4 miles, on Ponderosa Road, turn right on Craft's Prairie Road, go .1 mile to gate on right. 
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  • Texas Historical Markers
  • Greenbrier Cemetery
  • Wilson Chapel Methodist Church
  • Marian Anderson High School
  • Alfred M. Hallmark
  • Frank Mulder Gossett
  • No 57: Old San Antonio Road
  • Zephyr Cemetery
  • Zephyr Gospel Tabernacle
  • First Baptist Church of Zephyr
  • Military Road
  • Zephyr Presbyterian Church
  • Burkett Pecan Tree
  • Hittson Ranch
  • Callahan City Cemetery
  • Admiral Baptist Church
  • Belle Plaine Cemetery
  • Ross Cemetery
  • Callahan County
  • The Prew House
  • Brooke Smith
  • Minnie Fisher Cunningham
  • Ebenezer Baptist Church
  • Dodge
  • Site of Andrew Female College
  • Glendale Cemetery
  • Community of Fodice
  • Holy Rosary Catholic Parish
  • Pegleg Crossing on the San Saba
  • B. T. Brown House
  • German Methodist Church/First Fire Station
  • Providence Church and Cemetery
  • Packsaddle Mountain
  • Homesite of W. F. Heller, Pioneer Farmer
  • The Bosque-Larios Expedition
  • No. 60 Old San Antonio Road
  • No. 56 Old San Antonio Road
  • No. 59 Old San Antonio Road
  • Texas Central Railroad
  • Center City Community
  • Orla
  • Fairview Cemetery
  • Leon County Courthouse
  • Anderson County in the Civil War
  • Judge H.T. Brown
  • Washington County, C.S.A.
  • Leander
  • Oveta Culp Hobby and the Women's Army Corps
  • Jacob Haller House
  • James M. Holt
  • Washington-on-the Brazos
  • Donigan House
  • Fort Worth Stock Yards Entrance
  • Smithfield Baptist Church
  • Elite Cafe
  • Joseph Brooks Home
  • Phair Cemetery
  • Robert Justus Kleberg
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