C.B. Lester - Flower Mound Heritage Walk - Flower Mound, TX
N 33° 03.919 W 097° 04.887
14S E 679104 N 3660164
A sign on the Flower Mound Heritage Walk provides a little history about Waketon pioneer, C.B. Lester, with an insight as to how life was here at the time, and a sad story about his burying his first wife.
Waymark Code: WMRVWJ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/09/2016
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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"."
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Location: Flower Mound Heritage Walk
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