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By Cosmos Mariner, May 30, 2014
Leakey Cemetery Marker (wide view)
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1 ► Texas, Real County, Leakey — 3057 — Leakey Cemetery —
On 6th Street (Ranch to Market Road 337E) at School Street, on the right when traveling east on 6th Street.
Originally known as the Floral Cemetery and serving an earlier community by that name, this cemetery dates to at least 1881. Land for the graveyard was sold by John and Nancy Leakey for one dollar and a cemetery plot. The oldest documented . . . — — Map (db m111323) HM
2 ► Texas, Real County, Leakey — 2792 — John Leakey —
On Market Street (U.S. 83) south of Main Street, on the right when traveling north.
Tennessee native John Leakey (1824-1900) came to Texas in 1847, settling for a time in Henderson County where he was a brickmason and rancher. He and his wife Nancy (Patterson) moved to Uvalde County in 1852 near present day Sabinal. A desire to . . . — — Map (db m111322) HM
3 ► Texas, Real County, Leakey — 4831 — Site of McLaurin Massacre — (Last Indian Raid in Frio Canyon) —
On Ranch Road 336 north of McClure Crossing, on the right when traveling north.
On April 19, 1881, Catherine "Kate" Ringer McLaurin (Sometimes McLauren) was with her three small children and 14-year old Allen Lease in the garden when a band of Lipan Apaches started to plunder her home. Lease, thinking there were pigs in the . . . — — Map (db m111361) HM
 
 
  
  
 
 
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