Fields Store Cemetery
Posted by: Raven
N 30° 09.961 W 095° 55.291
15R E 218635 N 3340788
A marker by the Fields Store Cemetery (est. 1872) in rural Waller county, named after Druey Holland Field who donated the land. His father moved here around the early 1870's to operate a general store in this general area.
Waymark Code: WMN6V4
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/06/2015
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Also known as New Hope Church Cemetery, the Fields Store cemetery in Waller County, Texas, is located near the intersection of FM-1488 and FM-362, and was formally established/named in 1872.
A brief background on the community surrounding the cemetery, per the
Texas State Historical Association website:
"Fields (Field's) Store is [located] ten miles northeast of Hempstead in northeast Waller County. It existed as early as 1872 and received its name from Andrew Field and his son Druey Holland Field, the first of several Field family members to operate a general store in the area. By 1874 the community had a post office called Field's Store operated by Isaac Newton Jones, Druey's son-in-law. In 1895 the post office dropped the apostrophe from the name. Thirty residents lived in the community during the 1880s; in the next decade the town had a population of 150, three general stores, at least one church, and a physician. In 1905 Fields Store School enrolled 179 students who were instructed by four teachers. A local Masonic lodge existed during the same period, and by 1907 a Woodman of the World chapter had received its charter. A cotton gin also served local farmers.
Fields Store declined when the neighboring communities of Myrtle Grove and Joseph developed gins and opened post offices. The Fields Store post office closed in 1909, and most residents began receiving mail from Waller. During the 1930s sixty-nine students attended primary school at Fields Store; high school students rode the bus to Waller. In 1953 the Fields Store school was consolidated with the Waller schools, where area children still attended school in 1990. The old Fields Store school building, completed in 1923, served as the Fields Store Community House in 1990. Pleasant Hill Masonic Lodge No. 380 still met at the meeting hall in Fields Store, and an active cemetery association continued to raise money from July 4 picnics and an annual rodeo. The picnics served as community reunions. New Hope United Methodist Church continued to hold services [as of the date of this waymark's posting]. The Texas Historical Commission has placed markers at the site of the old store and at the cemetery."
As stated above, this waymark is for the marker by the cemetery. The other marker was already posted in 2011 (by QuesterMark) can be visited
here.