These two graves are C. C. Humphrey and his 2nd wife Bessie Taylor. His grave is marked only with the piece of stone from the quarry in Lueders. He was buried here because none of his children wanted him buried with the family. His parents and grandparents are buried in the center of this cemetery.

After Bessie's death the family story goes that he just didn't care much about anything even after he married my grandmother Stella and had eight children. He spent 12 years in prison for killing his best friend. He moved to Abilene after his divorce and lived with his long time girlfriend Jane Norcross. They had no children.


OBITUARY: Abilene, TX newspaper in April 1952.

C.C. HUMPHREY DIES AFTER HEART ATTACK; RITES SET AT AVOCA:

C.C. Humphrey, 67, died at 11 p.m. Wednesday at his home, 1417 N. 16th St., of a heart attack. A farmer at Avoca until he moved to Abilene about 25 years ago. Mr. Humphrey worked as a carpenter around Abilene recently.
Funeral will be held at 4 p.m. Friday in the Avoca Baptist Church with the Rev. Joe V. Grimes, retired Baptist minister, officiating. Burial will be in Spring Creek Cemetery under the direction of Laughter-North Funeral Home. Close friends from Avoca will be the pallbearers.
Mr. Humphrey was born Nov. 20, 1888 at Walnut Springs. He was a member of the Baptist church at Avoca.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Jane Humphrey; six daughters, Mrs. Hilton (Oneita) White of Slaton, Mrs. Jack (Lillie) Dillard of Odessa, Mrs. Leon (Mary) Lefler of Fort Worth, Mrs. Ernest (Bobby) North of Wichita Falls, Mrs J. Q. (Ann) Rasure of Sulphur Springs, and Mrs. H.L. (Max) Gilbert of Wichita Falls; three sons, Jack of Dallas, Joe of Campbell, Calif., and Thomas of Wichita Falls; two brothers, Thomas D. of Dallas and Neal of Avoca; and three sisters, Mrs. (Annie) Robert Dunlap of 1257 Jeanette St., Mrs. Lee (Ada Belle) Bolin of Temple and Mrs. Carl (Lula) Grimes of Stamford. The body will lie in state at Laughter-North Funeral Home until time for the service.

Chisum C. Humphrey grew up in the Avoca, Texas area of Jones County. He was my grandfather.

He was born in Walnut Springs, TX in 1888 and died in Abilene, TX in 1952. He married Rosa Estella Weeks in 1915. They had 8 children. He had one with second wife, Bessie Taylor. He also married Dovie Robinette and Jane Norcross.

C.C. and his brothers and father, David Crockett Humphrey worked on building the railroad along the Chisolm Trail.

His name was simply C.C. until he needed to have an actual name so he took the name Chisum. His grandmother was a Chism.

He and Stella (Mammy) divorced in the 1940's.

He is buried in an unmarked grave at the entrance of Spring Creek Cemetery in Avoca next to Bessie, his first love.

His grave is unmarked except for a single brick from the Lueders Quarry. It has no inscrption.