St.
John’s Lutheran Cemetery –
a.k.a. Waterhouse/Vesperville Cemetery
Wharton County, Cemeteries of Texas
Submitted
by: Lois Kennedy
Cemeteries
of Texas: Veda
Bragg Mendoza
Located
in west Wharton County, across the Colorado River from Glen Flora just off FM
960, near the Crossroads community
of Crescent.
In 1985, Bessie Lee Matthews Roecker conducted the survey, and related
that it was overgrown, with many of the markers damaged by cattle and trees.
Many of the tombstones text is in German.
It is likely that this is not a complete list of all the burials.
Beginning in 1997, the members of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Wharton,
began a clean up project of the cemetery and plan to continue maintenance and
necessary repairs. This church was
the original St. John’s which started the cemetery, but a move to Wharton
necessitated a name change to St. Paul, as there was already a St. John’s
Lutheran there.
Typist
Note: There are no plot or grave numbers on this survey.
I have taken the liberty of
No |
Last
Name |
First
Name |
Born |
Died |
Comments |
1 |
Huebing |
Friederich |
Feb
23 1854 |
1932 |
|
2 |
Huebing |
Wilhelmine |
Jul
25 1856 |
Jan
09 1968 |
|
3 |
Huebing |
Martha |
Jan
15 1883 |
Jan
09 168 |
|
4 |
Heubing |
Reinhart
Fred |
Apr
16 1893 |
Oct
22 1977 |
|
5 |
Roecker |
William,
Sr. |
Nov
03 1844 |
Jun
18 1935 |
|
6 |
Roecker |
Johanna |
Mar
19 1847 |
Jan
31 1933 |
|
7 |
Roecker |
Charles
A. |
Jan
11 1870 |
May
30 1961 |
|
8 |
Roecker |
Minnie |
May
24 1873 |
Aug
23 1951 |
|
9 |
Roecker |
William
Albert |
Sep
03 1880 |
Sep
01 1961 |
|
10 |
Roecker |
Edwin |
May
29 190- |
Dec
18 1918 |
|
11 |
Roecker |
Wilhelm
F. E. |
Nov
02 1903 |
Nov
10 1903 |
|
12 |
Roecker |
Elsie
Louise |
Feb
04 1920 |
Feb
10 1922 |
D/o
M-M Emil R. |
13 |
Ertel |
Friederich |
Nov
12 1840 |
Dec
30 1907 |
|
14 |
Baumgartner |
G.
Phillipp |
Aug
20 1847 |
May
25 1924 |
|
15 |
Heyne |
Leon |
Nov
11 1902 |
Oct
15 1904 |
|
16 |
Franke |
Louise
W. |
Jan
27 1898 |
Aug
07 1898 |
|
17 |
Franke |
R.
C. |
- |
- |
|
18 |
Gerth |
Paulina
C. |
Aug
05 1851 |
Apr
12 1899 |
|
19 |
Hinze |
Johanna
M. |
Jul
30 1823 |
Sep
03 1904 |
|
20 |
Hinze |
Wilhelmine
F. |
Feb
02 1828 |
Feb
28 1899 |
|
21 |
Grueber |
Samuel
A. |
Dec
18 1887 |
Oct
28 1902 |
Lutheran
Pastor |
22 |
Gerth
or Herrn |
Ruth
N. |
- |
- |
|
History
of some of the families who lived, worked and died in the Waterhouse/Vesperville
area, now known as Crescent.
A
group of German families were brought here by C. H. Waterhouse from Wisconsin,
the town of Portage and Madison are those know origins.
Among those families were: the Roecker, Walling, Hinze, Huebing, Hiling.
The area is located in the Kincheloe League A-37.
Roecker
Family: Father –
William S.
Huebing
Family: Father – John Friederich