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Saturn
Cemetery
Historic Texas Cemetery
Hwy 97 & FM 385
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, June 2014 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
Originally called
Possum Trot, the town was granted a post office which was open
from 1902, through 1914. It's assumed that the name was under Saturn
and not Possum Trot since postal authorities were known to hold decorum
over quaint.
The only population figures available were from 1914 when 35 Saturnites
resided there. Saturn had a telephone connection to Gonzales
plus a general store, grocery and blacksmith. By 1965, there were
only an estimated 15 people living there and that number was repeated
throughout 1990 and 2000.
The county highway map shows a cemetery at Saturn and there is a community
building as well. |
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Saturn Cemetery
A community began
to develop near this site during the 1870s and was known by several
names, including Possum Trot, Prickly Pear, and Ettowa
before a post office was established under the name Saturn in 1902.
Hugh and Elizabeth (Burleson) McMillan sold two acres at this site
to the Good Hope Primitive Baptist Church for a cemetery in 1882.
The site was already the resting place of their daughter Martha McMillan
Dubose, who died in 1880. The burial ground continued to be used by
the McMillan and Dubose families, as well as other members of the
Saturn community. A cemetery association was formed in 1974 to oversee
the operations of the cemetery, which serves as a reminder of early
Gonzales County
pioneers.
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