boots and hats totem pole

 

I've seen lots of different tributes at gravesites but this was a first.  The only marker is the metal one from the funeral home with name and dates.  I am assuming that "Jo" was female because the boots seem to be of the feminine persuasion.  Someone has been adding to the tributes since the burial in 2001.  I wonder about Jo.  Was she a rancher, a cowgirl or are the tributes indicative of those left behind?  What did she do in her 78 years of life?  Boots and cowboy hats are iconic symbols of the western way of life. Jo appears to be the only Honeycutt in the Grassland Cemetery. One goes TO Grassland, not necessary through the town.  It is located at FM 212 and 1313 in Lynn County.  The community was founded in 1888 and population reached 200 in 1940.  At one time there was a school, three churches, a post office and café plus two gins and ag businesses.  The students were bussed to Tahoka and the decline began. Today there appear to be about a dozen occupied residences, one working gin, one ag business and the Church of the Nazarene (founded 1920 but in "new" building). No closed school or abandoned churches and a few dilapidated buildings.   (By the way, there is no grass in the Grassland Cemetery.)  

Grassland Cemetery
Grassland, Texas
2.20.2015