C.B. Lester (Flower Mound Heritage Walk) - Flower Mound, TX - Signs of History on Waymarking.com

The Flower Mound Heritage Walk is located in the Robertson's Creek Shopping Center, and can be found behind the Starbucks. Today, Waketon is part of Flower Mound, and besides Mr. Wakefield's old house (northwest of here), Waketon Road is just south of here, about the only remnants of what once was. Chinn's Chapel Cemetery is northeast of here, and the sign says:

C.B. Lester

The fourth child of twelve and a Tennessee native, C.B. Lester and his family came to Waketon in a covered wagon in the early 1870's. They settled on a large farm east of Chinn Chapel Church, School and Cemetery.

C.B. attended the free public school in the log cabin school house on the south end of the Chinn Chapel Cemetery.

He married a devout Christian healer named Sudie Bell Jackson but she soon fell gravely ill. While Sudie Bell lay dying, C.B. built a wagon intending to travel with her to a better climate, but she died before it could be completed. On the day of her funeral, C.B. drove his wife's wagon to her final resting place across the meadow to Chinn's Chapel Cemetery. C.B. later remarried Sarah Porter, well known as "Aunt Sissie".

Group that erected the marker: City of Flower Mound URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link] Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary: 5801 Long Prairie Rd Flower Mound, TX USA 75028

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