I went out and tried to get transcriptions for this cemetery but it was so overrun with vegetation that I only got about 15, most have photos. I cannot tell you how scared I was... it is no place for a lady... or a man, either. It takes a machete, no kidding, to take a single step there, you cannot see ANY markers until you do a lot of hacking.
What I DID get:
http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Etx/Hunt/cemetery/hopewell.h...I called
Hunt Co., about it, nobody seemed to know WHOSE responsibility it was... but while I was out there, I learned from a neighbor to it, it was cleared out to the gates, last year, but not INTO the cemetery itself. I ran into some contradictions to that theory... but I decided not to push it, it will begin its restoration, PROBABLY on Thursday. I learned after many conversations... It is all due to a teacher at
Bland School (Ms. Dodd). Bland had, apparently, told Hunt Cty., that they wanted to take over the upkeep, they wanted to place a
Texas State Historical
Marker on it.
Hunt Cty told me that I should contact HER if anyone wanted to pursue the historical marker but they are going to clean it up, nobody knows how it got lost in the shuffle but they had her name and intentions in their records.
Hunt Cty's head of maintenance will be calling me around Thursday, I told him if could work on it in sections (as he was going), I could do my transcriptions within those sections, I am working alone. He has been very willing to clear it up. They had it within their radar but it was handed off to
Bland and.. subsequently, forgotten, when the teacher who had taken responsibility, did not. I will begin there again - as soon as I get the call.
