To Everything A Season: EDGARs in Hillside Cemetery, Cuero, DeWitt Co, TX

Hillside Cemetery

Grid

Hillside Cemetery

main gate

Texas Historical

Marker

Small marker at the

entrance to Edgar

family plot  (Area 1)

which is

surrounded by a nice

concrete border.

Area 1

Area 1

Area 1

Back of James D. and

Hilda R. headstone

This is a photo

looking east in Area

2. The three graves in

the foreground, right

to left, are Joshua N.

Edgar, Susie E.

Edgar, Joshua's wife,

and their first child

Mary Evelyn Edgar. 

The combined

gravestone for

Joshua K. Edgar and

Ruby F. Edgar can be

seen in this photo.  It

is past (east of) these

three (just past the

foot of Joshua's

grave) and to the right

of the rose bush in

this photo.

This is the view of

Area 2 looking south,

These three graves,

far to near, are

Joshua N. Edgar,

Susie E. Edgar,  Mary

Evelyn Edgar. (The

combined gravestone

for Joshua K. Edgar

and Ruby F. Edgar

cannot be seen in this

photo, but is ahead

and to the left, behind

the rose bush in this

photo.)

Area 2

Area 2

Area 2

Area 2

This is a photo of

Area 3, looking east

from from the north-

south road on the far

east side of the

cemetery.  The four

Edgar graves in the

northwest corner of

Section 2A are, left to

right, W. M. "Bill"

Edgar and his wife

Gladys Jaeger Edgar,

W.M.'s younger

brother Clifford A.

Edgar and his wife

Lota J. Edgar. The

large marker behind

those four graves

says JAEGER and

marks the graves of

Gladys' parents.

Area 3

Area 3

Area 3

Area 3

Area 3

Area 4 Entrance

Area 4

Area 4

A view toward the

northwest showing

BFW Edgar's

gravestone (large one

on the right) and BFW

Edgar II's gravestone

(small, flat one on the

ground beside the

large one). Directly

behind the large

headstone of BFW

are the Edgar

headstones of Group

5.

Area 4

Area 4

Area 4

Area 4

Area 4

Area 4

Edgar Memorial in

Area 5

Back of headstones

Left to right facing the

gravestones:

Henry B. Edgar (b.

1867)

Mary G. Edgar (b.

1869)

Henry B. Edgar (b.

1895)

Maggie M. Edgar (b.

1893)

Henry Edgar (b.

1821)

A view from the back

road looking east

across the plot

containing Group 5

(Henry Edgar's family)

that shows the plot

containing Group 4

(James D. Edgar's

family and B.F.W.'s

family) just behind

and slightly to the

right.  You will see the

back sides of two

large stones in the

distance in this

photo.  One is the

back of James D.

Edgar's and Martha

Jane Hadley's

combined

gravestone; the other

is the back of B.F.W.'s

gravestone. (R.

Webb, July 2006)

Area 5

Area 5

Area 5

Area 5

Area 5

Area 6, looking west

into Section 4-D from

the north/south

access road,

across the front row,

left to right, are

Joseph S. Edgar Sr.,

John Burns Edgar,

Effie Mae Edgar, Mary

Boothe Patterson.

Second row from left,

Sibyl T. Edgar, Col.

James D. Edgar,

Coralee Davis Edgar.

Third row from left,

TBD

Fourth row from left,

TBD

Area 6

Area 6

Area 6

Area 6

Area 6

Area 6

Looking east, of the

plot with Edgar family

members' graves in

Area 7. 

A view of the same

plot but looking north

with the big, old live

oak tree in the

background.

Area 7

Area 7

Area 7

Area 7

Area 7

Area 7

Area 7

Area 7

Edgars in Hillside Cemetery

        Welcome Edgars Location Directions Politeness Area 1 Area 2 Area 3 Area 4 Area 5 Area 6 Area 7

For a slide show of all photos of the Edgar family in Hillside Cemetery, click

on any photo; for details about each gravestone, choose the Area from the

index.

GRID: Edgar Family members are resting in seven areas in the Hillside

Cemetery. The grid in Patsy Goebel's 1987 survey has been noted by

Robert Webb to show these seven Edgar Family locations.

1

Section 1B, 77 – 266

2

Section 1C, 267 – 415

3

Section 2A, 1 - 180

4

Section 4A, 1 – 198

5

Section 4A, 1 – 198

6

Section 4D, 989 - 1334

7

Section 4D, 989 - 1334

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