Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Booker Richardson
Gender: Male
Race: Colored (Black)
Age: 39
Birth Date: 25 Apr 1902
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Odessa, Ector, Texas, USA
Death Date: 21 Jul 1941
Death Place: Odessa, Ector, Texas, USA
Father: Dan Richardson
Mother: Minerva Byumn [Bynum]
Burial in Clarksville per TX Death Certificate, but assumed his wife was buried with him in Bryarly as many death certificates named Clarksville but the burials have been subsequently found all over
"Bryarly Cemetetry has a story, that in the possibly 1940's, an old man was in charge of the cemetery and it had gotten too much for him to handle --- so he persuades a local farmer, to mow the cemetery --- upon seeing the cemetery, "the mower to be" backed out saying there were too many stones there for him to mow
So, the legend continues --- the old man hitched up his team of mules and removed them, piling them under a tree on the edge of the cemetery --- and then contacted the mower to come and clean it up --- there was never a map made of where the stones were, so all the old graves were lost"
Story from local cemetery researchers
Name: Booker Richardson
Gender: Male
Race: Colored (Black)
Age: 39
Birth Date: 25 Apr 1902
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Odessa, Ector, Texas, USA
Death Date: 21 Jul 1941
Death Place: Odessa, Ector, Texas, USA
Father: Dan Richardson
Mother: Minerva Byumn [Bynum]
Burial in Clarksville per TX Death Certificate, but assumed his wife was buried with him in Bryarly as many death certificates named Clarksville but the burials have been subsequently found all over
"Bryarly Cemetetry has a story, that in the possibly 1940's, an old man was in charge of the cemetery and it had gotten too much for him to handle --- so he persuades a local farmer, to mow the cemetery --- upon seeing the cemetery, "the mower to be" backed out saying there were too many stones there for him to mow
So, the legend continues --- the old man hitched up his team of mules and removed them, piling them under a tree on the edge of the cemetery --- and then contacted the mower to come and clean it up --- there was never a map made of where the stones were, so all the old graves were lost"
Story from local cemetery researchers
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Booker Richardson
Gender: Male
Race: Colored (Black)
Age: 39
Birth Date: 25 Apr 1902
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Odessa, Ector, Texas, USA
Death Date: 21 Jul 1941
Death Place: Odessa, Ector, Texas, USA
Father: Dan Richardson
Mother: Minerva Byumn [Bynum]
Burial in Clarksville per TX Death Certificate, but assumed his wife was buried with him in Bryarly as many death certificates named Clarksville but the burials have been subsequently found all over
"Bryarly Cemetetry has a story, that in the possibly 1940's, an old man was in charge of the cemetery and it had gotten too much for him to handle --- so he persuades a local farmer, to mow the cemetery --- upon seeing the cemetery, "the mower to be" backed out saying there were too many stones there for him to mow
So, the legend continues --- the old man hitched up his team of mules and removed them, piling them under a tree on the edge of the cemetery --- and then contacted the mower to come and clean it up --- there was never a map made of where the stones were, so all the old graves were lost"
Story from local cemetery researchers
Name: Booker Richardson
Gender: Male
Race: Colored (Black)
Age: 39
Birth Date: 25 Apr 1902
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Odessa, Ector, Texas, USA
Death Date: 21 Jul 1941
Death Place: Odessa, Ector, Texas, USA
Father: Dan Richardson
Mother: Minerva Byumn [Bynum]
Burial in Clarksville per TX Death Certificate, but assumed his wife was buried with him in Bryarly as many death certificates named Clarksville but the burials have been subsequently found all over
"Bryarly Cemetetry has a story, that in the possibly 1940's, an old man was in charge of the cemetery and it had gotten too much for him to handle --- so he persuades a local farmer, to mow the cemetery --- upon seeing the cemetery, "the mower to be" backed out saying there were too many stones there for him to mow
So, the legend continues --- the old man hitched up his team of mules and removed them, piling them under a tree on the edge of the cemetery --- and then contacted the mower to come and clean it up --- there was never a map made of where the stones were, so all the old graves were lost"
Story from local cemetery researchers
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