News item that tells of the removal of a metallic casket that contained the body of Dr. W. L. Crenshaw from an almost forgotten and neglected cemetery. The story runs as follows. Early this morning a colored woman discovered a metallic casket in the lane just south of W.T. Woodward's place in the eastern part of Navasota. Mayor Yarborough was promptly notified & ordered that the casket be taken up & removed to the city cemetery & the job was given to Undertaker Lindley. The place had been used as a private burying ground many years since here rested the bodies of quite a number of Catholic people. In the course of events conditions changed, the lands becoming the property of different individuals & thoroughfares were necessarily opened this lane being run across this probably forgotten cemetery. The winter rains and the summer floods found natural drainage down the wagon rutted street by process wore away the sand & Clay hill, gradually bringing the road to the top of this coffin. From Mr. Jesse Youens the reporter learned that the grave was the domicile of Dr. W.L. Crenshaw's remains, who was thrown from his horse against a stump and killed in April 1870 & he sold the coffin & superintended the laying of the body away. At 3:00 this afternoon the casket was taken through the city to again be consigned to mother earth in a more secure retreat. Examiner: Thurs. Sept 29, 1898 (buried in City Cemetery Block E, Lot 1 Grave 2)
News item that tells of the removal of a metallic casket that contained the body of Dr. W. L. Crenshaw from an almost forgotten and neglected cemetery. The story runs as follows. Early this morning a colored woman discovered a metallic casket in the lane just south of W.T. Woodward's place in the eastern part of Navasota. Mayor Yarborough was promptly notified & ordered that the casket be taken up & removed to the city cemetery & the job was given to Undertaker Lindley. The place had been used as a private burying ground many years since here rested the bodies of quite a number of Catholic people. In the course of events conditions changed, the lands becoming the property of different individuals & thoroughfares were necessarily opened this lane being run across this probably forgotten cemetery. The winter rains and the summer floods found natural drainage down the wagon rutted street by process wore away the sand & Clay hill, gradually bringing the road to the top of this coffin. From Mr. Jesse Youens the reporter learned that the grave was the domicile of Dr. W.L. Crenshaw's remains, who was thrown from his horse against a stump and killed in April 1870 & he sold the coffin & superintended the laying of the body away. At 3:00 this afternoon the casket was taken through the city to again be consigned to mother earth in a more secure retreat. Examiner: Thurs. Sept 29, 1898 (buried in City Cemetery Block E, Lot 1 Grave 2)
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