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Weldon Ivy Surveyed the headstones located at "Trigger Mountain Cemetery on June 25, 1999- in 2001 I went to the cemetery and took photos with my olympus Digital camera.

I love sharing photos and information I have researched, but if you repost them anywhere, put them in a book, or newspaper, please cite the source.

I have found several of my photos posted on findagrave by an individual (Ms. Gillihan) and her friends, Ms Gillihan Has also copies my personal notes, Like "see record below" but she has no records listed below. sometimes I write my opinion of the inforamtion and she has copied that also. She apparently copies verbatim and doesn't read them. Because of this person and others, I have to mark my photos to try and keep others honest in the future

Some additional information was obtained from the various sources listed below.

Surnames in the cemetery Burgess, Edgar, Guthrie,Hays, Hosea

In the county family history book, "Mills County Memories", compiled and copyrighted by the Mills County Historical Commission in 1994 there are several short articles submitted pertaining to Trigger Mountain.

Lee Ruth Campbell wrote how Trigger Mountain Community was named after a horse that had fought in several battles with the Indians and had died in it's old age upon a cliche Peak that rose higher than the nearby hills. This article is on page 60.

Also on page 61 is an article submitted by Judy Wigley about family memories of living in the Trigger Mountain Community. The memories include baptisms at the "Sherfield Hole" in Brown's creek. Later Baptisms were held at Lake Meritt.

Page 76 Article submitted by Lee Ruth Campbell, about The Trigger Mountain Church, The church first met at North Brown School but soon built a building of it's own, Reverend L. L. (Lovely Lorenzo) Hays and his wife joined the church in February 1898. The church averaged 100 members before World War II. There is a picture of the singing school at Trigger Mountain Church take in 1925 and some of the surnames listed under the picture were: Graves, Stuck, Nix, Calaway, Dellis, Ellis, Hayes, Hill, Cumley Tullos, Shievers, Oden, and McNutt.

Page 94 is a short two paragraph article about the Trigger Mountain School District that was created in the May term of the Mills County Commissioner's court in 1887. The school was located about one and one half miles from the Trigger Mountain Church. It was a one teacher school until 1912 when another teacher was hired. The only teachers mentioned in the article was Warren Duren and Bernadine Rudd who taught in the last year the school was operated 1933. In 1933 the school was consolidated with Lake Meritt school. Apparently not only did the students move, the school building itself was moved to the North Brown School and attached to the Lake Meritt school.

The Legend is as follows;

Source

News = Newspaper article,
DC = Death Certicate,
Fam = Family Record
Sur = Survey
Other= Historical markers, books etc.

TYPE

DS = Double Headstone
SS = Single Headstone
FM = Funeral Home Marker (whenever possible, Funeral home name will be in "Other")

N/A = Not known

I have made all attempts to avoid mistakes, but I am after all only human, If there are any errors, I am truly sorry and will make note of any errors brought to my attention.
You can contact me at :
Sharon Ivy
P. O. Box 117,
Priddy, TX 76870

Trigger Mountain Cemetery

Surname	Given Name	Birthdate	Deathdate	Type	Notes	Source
Burgess Headstone Photo	Biley	August 24, 1888	May 22, 1904	SS	-	Survey/News
Edgar Headstone Photo	Rev. Julian	February 20, 1889	October 23, 1911	SS	-	survey
Unreadable "Gardener" Headstone Photo	Infant of Gartn?r I received an email from ALLEN GREEN and he wrote that it reads "INFANT OF LIONEL AND ENID GARDNER"	-	July 1914-	SS	-	Survey/email
Guthrie Headstone Photo	B. F. Benjamin Frost	November 21, 1860	November 27, 1926	SS	His widow, Jennie/Jenny (Baty) remarried later to Mr. H.M. Burnett and is buried in OakView Cemetery, Mullin, Texas-	Survey/News
Guthrie New (1964) Headstone Photo	James Thomas	January 3, 1840	November 20, 1914	SS	13 Regt Texas Cav CSA This is a newer headstone placed abt 1964 and the article mistakenly said "13th Texas Brigade"	survey/News
Guthrie	J.T. This is the original stone of James Thomas Guthrie listed above - I have been told it will be discarded in the near future,	January 3, 1840	November 20, 1914	SS	Older stone, probably placed soon after death, - I will leave the information on the page even after the old stone is removed another view of Original Headstone UPDATE I did find the Obit for Mr. Guthrie which says he died November 20, 1914 and was in the Nov 28, 1914 issue of the Goldthwaite Eagle- Click Here to read the obit	survey
Hays Headstone photo	Rev. Lovely Lorenzo	December 19, 1861	April 16, 1961	DS	Baptist Pastor	survey/News
Hays	Julia Ann (McCutchen)	February 27, 1861	December 24, 1954	DS	From Rev Hays Obit- Married 68 years	survey/News
Hosea Military Headstone Photo	John Morris	March 16, 1917	August 30, 1996	DS	Lt JG US Navy WW II-	Survey
Hosea See Plot Photo	*Jim Marie*	-	Living	DS	Wife of John Morris Hosea	Survey

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James Thomas Guthrie

You can order his Civil War Pension Application (Remember to use your browser's back button to return to this page) from the Texas State Archives with the following information:

Claimant: Guthrie, James Thomas Pension Number: 28222 County: Mills

Headstone was ordered by his grandson, Arnold Reynolds, Extracted from Goldthwaite Eagle article, "Mills County Receives Two more Civil War Veteran Grave Markers", dated May 21, 1964 This article mistakenly said it was the "13th Texas Brigade instead of the 13th Cav" as this pay stub sumitted by F. D. Guthrie confirms.

James T. Guthrie's name was not listed on the Jeff Davis Camp #117 Memorial Marker-

Click here to see a copy of the Prenuptials for John Guthrie and Annie Anderson I do not know if James T. Guthrie and John Guthrie are related, but have added it in case it helps someome.

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Mills County, Texas

- Transcribed with permission from The Goldthwaite Eagle-Mullin Enterprise, dated April 20, 1961

REV. L.L. HAYS, 99, PIONEER BAPTIST PREACHER, DIES SUNDAY

[Picture of Rev Hays]
Caption under picture: REV. L.L. HAYS - As he appeared in 1957 with his Bible while he was still quite active in serving as a Baptist Preacher spreading his good word.

Funeral services for Rev. L. L. Hays, retired Baptist preacher, were held in the Trigger Mountain Church, Tuesday afternoon, April 18, at 2:30 o'clock. Services were conducted by Rev. S.D. Taylor of San Saba, Rodger Croker, Pastor of the Trigger Mountain Church and Rev. Presnall H. Wood, pastor of First Baptist Church at Goldthwaite. Burial was in the Trigger Mountain Cemetery under the direction of the Roy Wilkins Funeral Home.

Rev. Hays was born December 19, 1861 in Scotsborough, Alabama and passed away in a local hospital Sunday evening, April 16, 1961 at 11:40. . He was licensed to preach in January 1885 by Scotsborough Baptist Church. He and Miss Julia Ann McCutcheon were married in Scotsborough, December 8, 1886 and they moved to Delta County in Northeast Texas in 1887. He taught school and preached and later began fulltime church work.

In 1897, the Hays family moved from Bexar County to Mills County, and bought a farm in the Trigger Mountain community east of Mullin. The Rev. Hays helped build Baptist churches at Star, Center City, Big Valley, Trigger Mountain, and Newburg and was pastor of Baptist Churches at Mullin, Zephyr, and Rock Springs.

He was a Mills County stock farmer for 63 years before his retirement in 1954. He and his wife celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary just prior to her death in 1954. He served the Trigger Mountain Church for over 20 years.

Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Adelyn Swafford of Muleshoe and Mrs. Kate Byler of Brownwood; five sons, Mack Hays of Abilene, Byron Hays of Idalou, John Hays of Cameron, Rev. Jim Hays of Brookshire, and Rev. Lawrence Hays of Denison, 10 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren and a multitude of friends.

Pallbearers were Robert S. Hays, Cameron Byler, Fred Reynolds, Pete Bramblett, Charlie Swindle, Burgess Fisher, Ralph Fisher and Henry Long. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=gweagle=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

I will be adding either extracts of articles published in the history books. or book and page numbers about the community, churc h and Rev Hays.

- Also Shirley Runnels has placed an Obituary for Rev L. L. Hays from a different newspaper on the Mills County GenConnect Board Remember to use your Browser's back button to return to this page as there is no link back

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John Hosea

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Extract of Obituary from San Angelo Standard Times, dated January 1, 1997 on line version http://www.texaswest.com/standard-times/news/97/jan/1/deaths.htm

GOLDTHWAITE - John Morris Hosea, 79, of Mullin, Texas passed away Monday, Dec. 30, 1996, in a Temple hospital in Temple, Texas.

Funeral Services were held at 11 a.m. Thursday January 2, 1997 in the Stacy Wilkins chapel with burial in Trigger Mountain Cemetery in Mills County, Texas.

Mr. Hosea was born March 16, 1917, in Knoxville, Tenn.

Survivors include his wife, Jim Marie Hosea of Mullin; two daughters, June Hite of Mullin and Marcie van Buskirk of Raton, N.M.; two sons, Johnny Hosea of Irving and Mike Hosea of Las Cruces, N.M.; two sisters, Marion Minshew of Burleson and Thelma Wells of Oxnard, Calif.; two brothers, Bill Hosea of Phoenix and Dick Hosea of Harlingen; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

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Goldthwaite EagleNewspapers, various articles.
Headstones in Mills County Cemeteries See list for referenced Cemetery
"Mills County Memories", compiled and Copyrighted by the Mills County Historical Commission
"No Man's Land becomes a County", by Flora Gatlin Bowles and copyrighted by the Mills County Historical Society
Confederate Applications for Pensions
From Descendants or researchers

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