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Bayview Cemetery
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Subject:
Bayview Cemetery, Corpus Christi
One of my great-grandfather Addison E. Lane's brothers and his wife
are buried in Bayview Cemetery. The family story says the several
of the brothers were ranching on Padre Island in the 1870s when
the place was attacked by 'Indians.' That's probably a mistake,
because Indians weren't raiding that far south in the 1870s. It
could well have been an attack by bandits out of Mexico. One of
the brothers was killed in the attack. His brothers went into Corpus
Christi to get lumber to build a coffin for him. His wife told
them to bring lumber for two coffins, because when they got back
she'd be dead, too. They didn't believe her and only brought lumber
for one coffin. She was dead when they got back, probably a suicide
with laudanum. Both bodies were transported to Corpus
Christi in the same coffin, a second coffin was built for her
there, and they were buried side by side in Bayview Cemetery, which
at the time was the only cemetery in Corpus
Christi. - C. F. Eckhardt, May 21, 2006
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