Peaceful Rest Cemetery Historical Marker, Gause, Milam, TX

Peaceful Rest Cemetery

Gause, TX

Historic Texas Cemetery
2005
HTC medallion

From US 79, turn north onto N. Locust St. (1

block east of Coats Store);Go past Gause City

Cemetery and turn right onto Professor Smith St.

Go 50 yards and

turn left at sign

for Cemetery

(turn between 2 houses);

0.4 miles to Cemetery

Peaceful Rest Cemetery Historical Marker, Gause, Milam, TX

Commissioner Dale Jaecks at

Marker Dedication Ceremony

Sign on Professor Smith St. showing

route to Peaceful Rest Cemetery

Peaceful Rest Cemetery Assoc. celebrates 110 years

Rockdale Reporter, June 3, 2010

In “A Salute To Those Who Serve(d)” everyone was encouraged to get involved during

events at the 110th anniversary of the Gause Peaceful Rest Cemetery Association,

according to spokesperson Lillian Hill.

Memorial Day festivities held by the Association this year reflected on those patriots

who served in various capacities and began the celebration of Memorial Day in Gause but

not necessarily at the onset of the cemetery’s inception.

Assisted by the Gause Schools Alumni Association (GSAA) the Peaceful Rest Cemetery

Association presented a well prepared program on Saturday with honor, loyalty and

dignity that involved the participation of many home comers to celebrate the memory of

founders and dedicated members.

Speakers included Roy D. Moore, Ruthie Fuller, Jo Ann Moore, Verdie Sadberry, Ropie

Pierce, Ocie M. Swift, Della Moore Duke, Marie Jakson Dunovant, Willie Ray Owens and

Roxie Pierce.

The program’s keynote speaker was Rev. Melvin E. Burleson of Macedonia Ministries in

Houston. He elaborated on the theme admonishing each listener to not only “get involved”

in serving but to “lend a hand.” Basing his message on a passage from II Kings 3:15, he

admonished his listeners to read the story and its message therein taking up the mantle

and going forward, Hill said.

The Gause Schools Alumni Association (GSA A) held two separate events during Memorial

Day weekend. On Friday the annual social/fi sh fry and talent show was held. Organizers

were LaVerne Ferguson Ratcliff of Houston and Franis Moore Carter of Dallas.

On Saturday night the awards banquet was held and featured speaker Chandra Joyce Donald

of Houston. She is a high school educator, association minister, director of mentoring

and a life coach.

She is the daughter of Joyce Malone Hammon of Houston and the great granddaughter of the

late Prof. Doyle Smith, Sr. of Gause.

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2015-08-17

I have a Ancestry tree that I do research on, to record the family trees (Peaceful Rest

Cemetery family tree) and also I put the information on FindAGrave as well. I use

FindaGrave because I have found no other public area to post the information, especially

those buried without marked gravestones. There are at least 169 graves, marked and

unmarked on the property. There was also a school and a church at one time.

Supposedly there is another cemetery near or attached, I am not sure but Google Earth

has several areas that look to be worth investigating.

There are two members of the cemetery that were over 100 years old. One was Lizzie

Alford Crayton, whose obit was mentioned in the Rockdale Reporter in 1939. She was a

former slave. Her husband was Mack Crayton (1836-1916).

Calvin Alford was Lizzie’s brother and he served in the civil war under Captain Chas.

Laseurer who took a company from Milam County for the Confederacy. Calvin who died in

1940 is also buried in the Liberty Hill Springfield Cemetery.

There were once many black landholders in that area but over the years, quite a few it

seems during the depression, lost the land. Slowly people moved to town and the school

died, then the church died and now the cemetery seems to have died. Ms. Holder’s book

mentioned that Liberty Hill Springfield was ‘active’ but the last burial I can find was

in 2000.

Holly Jentsch

candhjentsch@farm-market.net

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2015-03-14
Peaceful Rest Cemetery Ass'n to meet at Gause Community Center -
11:00 AM

For More Info:
Delores Fisher @
979-279-5707