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EAGLESTON-LITLE-SCOBEY
CEMETERY BASTROP/LEE COUNTY,
TEXAS Border PAIGE AREA LOCATION: This cemetery is located 2 miles east of
Paige on Hwy 21. This cemetery is on
the Lee County border with Bastrop and the county line runs through the
property. It was owned by Zina Peter Eagleston and Rebecca Litle
Scobey Eagleston.
The Eaglestons gave land for the Oak Hill
Cemetery in Smithville, Bastrop CO, TX and are both buried there. See Rebecca Eagleston's
obituary below. Eagleston, Ida 12/11/1862 3/12/1863 Dau of Z.P.E.
& Rebecca Eagleston, William B 12/7/1887 2/12/1888 Son of E.H. & M.E. Eagleston. Eicke, Anna x
5/11/1877 Litle, Erastus 12/25/1815 8/12/1862 Bro of Rebecca Litle
Eagleston Litle, H.N. 8/5/1818 8/12/1862 Bro of Rebecca Litle
Eagleston Scobey, A.W. 8/12/1823 11/27/1856 1st Husb of
Rebecca Litle Scobey, Minerva 7/15/1855 6/6/1886 Dau of A.W.
& Rebecca Scobey Scobey, W.A. 3/20/1853 11/7/1879 Son of A.W. & Rebecca Scobey Smithville Times
Newspaper, Bastrop County, TX, 2/11/1910. GRANDMA EAGLESTON Passed Away at the
Home of her Son in This City, Yesterday Evening. Mrs. Rebecca Eagleston, nee Scobey, one of the pioneers of Bastrop
county and one of the oldest of the native Texans,
died at the home of her son, E. H. Eagleston in this city yesterday evening at 4:30
o'clock, after a brief illness, aged 85 years. Grandma Eagleston was born on the Texas side of the Sabine river
in 1825 and had lived all her life in Texas, being one
of the oldest native born Texans. She was married to the
late Zina P. Eagleston in 1856, and settled in what
is now Lee county, near Paige. While living at this old home stead they
were citizens of three different
counties. It was first Burleson county
but was cut off into Bastrop
when this county was formed and later when Lee was orgainzed it was cut into that county.
They moved to Smithville in 1889, where they lived
together until August 27, 1907 when Mr. Eagleston
passed away. She is survived by her
son, E. H. Eagleston, several grand-children and
two great-grand-children. The funeral services
will be conducted at the family residence this (Friday) forenoon at 11 o'clock. the interment will be made at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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