The April 27th Waco Tribune reports that hundreds or thousands of Wacoans are buried in the portion of the old First street Cemetery that was SUPPOSEDLY cleared for the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum 40 years ago.
Descendants are obviously not happy. More than 160 remains have been discovered in the recent expansion at Fort Fisher. A cemetery relocation company removed the gravestones, but left the graves.
An archaeological team is exhuming bodies which will be reburied elsewhere.
NOTABLE WACOANS
Some notables that are among the missing. Samuel Forsgard, Waco's first Swedish immigrant and well-known confectioner and Civil War veteran.
Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson's great, great, great grandfather Shedrick Willis, a blacksmith and former slave. He was a two-term Waco City Councilman and mayor pro-tim.
Also in the cemetery somewhere is the father of the founder of Dr. Pepper. Confederate veteran H. C. Lazenby moved to Waco in 1866. His son, Robert Sherman Lazenby, produced Circle A Ginger Ale in 1884 and introduced Dr. Pepper in 1886.
I Bet the Relocation Company Got Paid Lots of Money Not to Do Their Job. Wonder If They'd Have Done Differently if One of Their Ancestors Was Buried There. --RoadDog
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