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Gerke-Seale Cemetery

Cemetery Name:	Gerke-Seale Cemetery
Location:	Tauber ranch
County:	Brazos
USGS Quad:	East Brazos County
Coordinates:
Maintained by:	Tauber ranch
Land owner:	Tauber family
Read by:	BVGA
Date read:	1998
Photos by:
Date added to Rambler web site:	August 26, 2015
Condition of cemetery**:	Poor
Directions:	The Gerke-Seale cemetery is located on the Tauber ranch 14.8 miles from the Brazos county courthouse. From the courthouse take Texas Avenue North for 1 mile to HighWAY 21 east. take Hwy 21 esat for 12.3 miles to Sand Creek road. Turn left and go 1.2 miles and turn right. This road is on the Tauber ranch. Please go to the ranch headquarters at the end of the road to ask permission. The cemetery is on the right through the fields. It is located on private property.

NAME	BIRTH	DEATH	COMMENTS
BADE, Rudolph	NL	16-Jul-26	Court record Son of Edward & Mary White Bade
Bade, Rudolph M	25 Apr. 1877	16 Jul. 1926	Bryan Cemetery Registers, vol.4, pages 268-269
BUTTRILL, Lafayette	1850	1850	Son of William and Celine Wood Buttrill p 28 Stribling
BUTTRILL, Mary "Polly" Folds	NL	1845	1st wife of William & Celina Wood Buttrill p 28 Stribblling
CHEESE, Amary	NL	15-Apr-30	Court record Daughter of George & Eliza Blu
EVANS, Nettie	NL	8-Nov-18	Court record Daughter of Charles Taylor
GERKE, Conrad	1810	1891	Husband of Minnie Gerke
GERKE, Minnie	15 Mar 1841	4-May-1914	Wife of Conrad Gerke
GERKE, Wilhemina	1841	1914	Mother
Haley, Angelina	NL	22 Jul. 1945	80 years old (Bryan Cemetery Registers, vol.4, pages 262-263)
HEAD, Elizabeth Seale	16 Jun 1804	1846
JOHNSON, James Elmer	18 Dec 1894	22-Mar-1961
LANE, Serina	NL	5-May-1922
Lane, Serinda	NL	6 May.1922	50 years old (Texas Death Certificate)
NUNLEY, Caroline Amanda	1-Oct-1925	NL	Daughter of William/Mary Buttrill (Carrol O. Buttrill)
Payton, Mitchell	16 Apr.1947	16 Apr.1947	(Bryan Cemetery Registers, vol.4, pages 268-269)
SEALE, Eli	11 Apr 1793	3 May 1857	b NC Tx Rev War Vet
SEALE, J.W.	28 Jun 1863	13 Apr 1889	25 y 9 m 16d
SEALE, Joseph Arnold	10 Oct 1822	16 Dec 1899	77y 1m 28d
SEALE, Lively Florence	11 Oct 1860	28 Jan. 1880
SEALE, Susannah Davis	18 Jan 1799	22 Feb 1847	b NC Wife of Eli Seale
Sterling, H	NL	1 Jun.1922	Texas Death Certificate
Taylor, Olie	1 Nov. 1907	12 Sept. 1957	Texas Death Certificate
Ward, Daisy	NL	28 Aug. 1936	27 years old Texas Death Certificate
WHITE, Elna	NL	28-Aug-17	Court record Daughter of Tom & Annie Posey
White, Elna	NL	15 Nov. 1917	9 years old Texas Death Certificate

** Condition of cemetery as observed on the given date -
may not be representative of care at other times of the year
Scale: Excellent - Good - Fair - Poor - Abandoned

*Explanation of Abbreviations:
R = Right side of road;   L = Left side of road; BC = Back center;   C = Center
d/s = double stone;   t/s = triple stone; q/s quadruple stone
s/o = son of ; d/o = daughter of;  c/o = child of; m/o = mother of; h/o = husband of; w/o = wife of;
FS = Footstone; FHM = Funeral Home Marker; MM = Military Marker; SRC - Source; BCGS = Brazos County Genealogical Society; BCGSQ = Brazos County Genealogical Society Quarterly; TDR = Texas Death Records; SSDI = Social Security Death Index; WOW = Woodman of the World

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PLEASE NOTE: These are NOT official records, only TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS. If you desire official information about this cemetery, please contact the organization responsible for its records. This is a PARTIAL listing of readable headstones.

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