Childress Family -- Paint Creek Cem., nr Robert Lee TX - Homemade Tombstones on Waymarking.com

The Childress family plot in the Paint Creek cemetery is notable for the number of homemade tombstones inside its confines. A modern engraved tombstone has been placed here among the homemade ones, many decades later. This plot contains the graves of John Childress and his two wife Sarah Childress, along with their son John Henry and daughter-in-law Annie Childress.

The homemade tombstones are as follows:

"S. M. Childress
Wife of
J. H. Childress
Born April 14th 1858
Died July 3rd 1930"

"Annie Childress
was born Jan 30th 1827
she died Sept 11
1908, she was
80 years old
7 months 12
days old. She
was the wife of
John
Childress"

One of the two engraved tombstones are for John and Annie Childress. The other is for John Henry and Sarah Childress.

Date of Birth: 30 Jan 1827 Date of Death: 11 Sep 1908 Material: Stone Web Site: Not listed

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