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A
farewell handshake in the Pines
Photo
courtesy Lori
Martin, January 2006 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
The date of settlement
is given as 1861. The Headache Springs Medical Laboratory of the Confederate
Army operated here during the war. One of nine facilities located
west of the Mississippi, this is where Confederate doctors made medicine
(and medicinal whiskey) from local roots, bark and mineral waters
from the springs. They were, as the historical marker says, the "medicines
of desperation."
In 1936, county maps showed a church, cemetery and school for Universe.
The school was consolidated with the Tyler
ISD in 1952. In 1972 Universe was still considered "a residential
community with a church, cemetery and three businesses." In 1990 part
of the area had been designated the "Headache Springs Natural Park." |
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Two
smaller tombstones
Photo
courtesy Lori
Martin, January 2006 |
Universe Cemetery
Photographer's
Note:
"I found this cemetery accidentally. There are no markers or signs
for the cemetery. The gates are hidden and the cemetery itself is
overgrown with weeds and small trees. There is a gate in the backyard
[of a house] that enters the cemetery. I looked around on the Internet
and found out that it is the Universe Cemetery." Lori
Martin, January 2006 |
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Vandalism
or tractor damage?
Photo
courtesy Lori
Martin, January 2006 |
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More
shards among the pine needles.
Photo
courtesy Lori
Martin, January 2006 |
From the rootsweb
page for Smith County:
Location:
The 3-acre unmaintained cemetery is at Latitude: N 32:20:08.4 - Longitude:
W 095:14:47.9
Directions:
From downtown Tyler,
take Highway 64 E to CR274 (aka Nottingham Lane). Turn left. One half
mile on Nottingham Lane will bring you to the 9100 block. The entrance
to Headache Springs Park is a few hundred yards further north. Earliest
burial is 1871 and the most recent is March of 2001.
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