Texas graveyards : a cultural legacy / by Terry G. Jordan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Terry G., author.

Series:

Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cemeteries--Texas.

Cemeteries.

Sepulchral monuments--Texas.

Sepulchral monuments.

Texas--Social life and customs.

Texas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2004.

Summary:

Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Truth about Cemeteries

2. The Southern Folk Cemetery in Texas

3. Traditional Southern Grave Markers

4. The Mexican Graveyard in Texas

5. The Texas German Graveyard

6. A Legacy Squandered

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Map of Texas Counties

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 24, 2018).

ISBN:

0-292-75738-7

OCLC:

1280945382