closed

 

The general store in Cone was built in 1903 and housed the post office.  Cone in its peak had 150 residents, a school, churches and businesses.  The day I visited Cone, the antique store -- in what was once the general store-- was closed according to the sign.  The sign is fairly descriptive of the whole place.

 

Cone, Crosby County, Texas

9.21.2013

messages in a mason jar

 

Many think my interest in visiting cemeteries is morbid but I find each graveyard offers intriguing glimpses into the past.  I am not alone in this avocation. Bob Bowman  confesses to being a  graveyard junkie, and like him, I prefer the older sites with unusual tombstones.  You read the dates and wonder about the lives lived; you see a lone marker and wonder where the rest of the family is buried; you note the personal remembrances left by mourners.  This man died young at 24 and was buried in the family plot far from his Texas A&M alma mater and career in College Station.  He is not forgotten.  Through the glass jar one can barely read handwritten letters wrapped in a wedding program.

 

Cone Cemetery 

FM 193

Crosby County, Texas

9.21.2013