WHARTON COUNTY CEMETERIES

WATERHOUSE LUTHERAN CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTION PAGE



This cemetery is in west Wharton County, across the Colorado River from Glen Flora just off FM 960, near the crossroads community of Crescent. A five acre tract was given by the Waterhouse family for the area residents to build a church and establish a cemetery. The church was on the road frontage, which was later sold; the back section was reserved as a cemetry belonging to the membership of the St. John's Lutheran Church.

The area was called Vesperville in the beginning but now is known as Crescent.

In 1985, Bessie Lee Matthews Roecker conducted the last survey, and related that it was overgrown, with many of the markers damaged by cattle and trees. many of the tombstones text is in German. It is likely that this is not a complete list of all the burials. Beginning in 1997, the members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Wharton, began a clean up project of the cemetery and plan to continue maintence and necessary repairs. This church was the original St. John' which started the cemetery, but a move to Wharton necessitated a name change to St. Paul, as there was already a St. John's Lutheran there.

This Cemetery Transcribed By Janet Barrett Hobizal May 2007 from Wharton County Cemetery Survey Book at The Wharton County Historical Museum.

SURNAME GIVENNAME BIRTHDATE DEATHDATE REMARKS
Huebing Freiedrich 02/23/1854 1932 -
Huebing Wilhelmine 07/25/1856 04/28/1931 nee Hinze
Huebing Martha 01/15/1883 01/09/1968 -
Huebing Reinhart Fred 04/16/1893 10/22/1977 -
Roecker William Sr 11/03/1844 06/18/1935 -
Roecker Johanna 03/19/1847 01/31/1933 -
Roecker Charles A 01/11/1870 03/30/1961 -
Roecker Minnie 03/24/1873 08/23/1951 -
Roecker William Albert 09/03/1880 09/02/1961 -
Roecker Edwin 03/29/190? 12/18/1918 -
Roecker Wilhelm F.E. 11/02/1903 11/10/1903 -
Roecker Elsie Louise 02/04/1920 02/10/1922 P: M/M Emil R.
Ertel Friederich 11/12/1840 12/30/1907 -
Baumgartner G. Phillipp 08/20/1847 03/25/1924 -
Heyne Leon 11/11/1902 10/15/1904 -
Franke Louise W. 01/27/1898 08/07/1898 -
Franke R.C - - -
Gerth Paulina C. 08/05/1851 04/12/1899 -
Hinze Wilhelmine F. 02/02/1828 02/28/1899 -
Hinze Johanna M. 07/30/1823 09/03/1904 -
Gruber Samuel A. 12/18/1887 10/28/1902 Lutheran Pastor
Gerth, or Herrin? Ruth N. - - -

History of some of those families who lived, worked and died in the Waterhouse/Vesperville area, now known as Crescent.

A group of German families were brought here by C.H. Waterhouse from Wisconsin--the towns of Portage and Madison are those known origins. Among those families were the Roecker, Walling, Hinze, Huebing, Huling. The area is located in the Kincheloe League A-37

Roecker Family: Father-William S. Mother- Johanna Denzier Children- Emil, Charles, Otto, William, Minnie, Matilda, Emma, Amelia, Edith and Clara.

Origin: Came from Prussia, Germany to U,S.A. April 1865, Came to Texas from Portage, Wisconsin 1892

Huebing Family: Father-John Frederich Mother-Wilhelmine Julianna Hinze Children- Louisa, Ida, Martha, Reinhart

Origin: Came from Strasburg, Germany to USA 1888, Came to Texas from Madison, Wisconsin 1892


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