Stephen Ingram was a veteran of the Second Seminole War who moved to this site in Texas in 1850. He died just eight years later, in 1858. Some of the graves are above ground and were built not long after the American Civil War era.
An old cabin was still on site when we visited in 2007, quietly fading back into the landscape around it.
Our family has been reading the “Little House” books by Laura Ingalls Wilder lately. Life on the frontier was extremely difficult and often tragic.
A lot of pioneer cabins were hewn from self-cut timber from the surrounding land and built by one or two people by themselves. It seems like such an amazing feat to us today, but to them, it was just part of normal life.
You can see the remnants of their hard work in the parts of the cabin that are still standing.
This was an interesting site to visit. We used to visit cemeteries and contribute to Find a Grave to help people find their lost loved ones. So we will be sharing about some of the cemeteries we visited. (Yes, this is a blog about “living” history, but death is part of the cycle of life, and there is a lot we can learn about the past from sites like this as well. )
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