They Came to Texas LbNA #69110
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Add Location| Owner: | Boots Tex  |
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| Plant date: | Aug 31, 2015 |
| Location: | Rice Cemetery, Crockett, Houston County, Texas |
| City: | Crockett |
| County: | Houston |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Blue Butterfly |
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| Last found: | Dec 28, 2016 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | Aug 31, 2015 |
Joseph Redmond Rice (1805-1866) and his wife Willie Masters Rice (1809-1881) started life together in Tennessee and Kentucky, but in 1828, looking for land and opportunity, They Came to Texas and settled here. Joseph cut timber; then his young wife, Willie, snaked the logs to a homesite on this land. The cabin they built with help from Joseph’s brother and Willie’s father, was a noted way station on the San Antonio Road called the Stagecoah Inn. They brought up eleven children enlarging their cabin several times. After a grandson built a frame home in 1919, the old cabin became a farm storage shed. The Texas Centennial Marker Commission in 1936 marked its history, and in 1973 it was given to the State of Texas and moved to Mission Tejas State Park for restoration and exhibition. You can visit the house by going to park, about 12 miles east of here.
Directions:
The original site of the cabin is on the El Camino Real, now state highway 21 about 4 miles east of Crockett, in Houston County, Texas. Driving east from Crockett, it will be on the left side of the road, across from Rice Cemetery. Pull over and read the historical markers, then cross the road to the cemetery.
To the box:
Park in front of the gate and go into the cemetery. The graves of Joseph and Willie Rice are in the middle row, towards the back. They both have round “Citizen of the Republic of Texas” markers set in the ground in front of their headstones. Facing the markers, turn around and find the large oak tree next to the fence. The box is under a rock and brick where the fence and tree meet.
Directions:
The original site of the cabin is on the El Camino Real, now state highway 21 about 4 miles east of Crockett, in Houston County, Texas. Driving east from Crockett, it will be on the left side of the road, across from Rice Cemetery. Pull over and read the historical markers, then cross the road to the cemetery.
To the box:
Park in front of the gate and go into the cemetery. The graves of Joseph and Willie Rice are in the middle row, towards the back. They both have round “Citizen of the Republic of Texas” markers set in the ground in front of their headstones. Facing the markers, turn around and find the large oak tree next to the fence. The box is under a rock and brick where the fence and tree meet.