A Moody Cemetery Tour

Each year, the Williamson Museum, in Georgetown, Texas, conducts a tour of the city’s I.O.O.F. Cemetery.   It’s a self-guided affair, where visitors stroll through the grounds.   Along the way, museum docents, in the roles of people buried where they stand, tell a bit about that person.   Just as last Saturday’s tour began, the bottom dropped out, the skies filling with rain, heavy at times.   Being the troopers they are, the docents stayed the course.   And people showed up to listen.   The weekend before, early Saturday rains forced cancellation.   This time, event organizers were determined to make this happen!   For me, the rain just added to the allure of the cemetery.  I love these places.   Shortly after coming home to Texas a few years ago, I visited this cemetery, coming upon the gravestone of Nannie Morrow, the eldest daughter of Sam Houston.   Born in 1846, she married Captain Joseph Clay Stiles Morrow, the family settling in Georgetown.   Captain Morrow was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War.   That grave, of course, was on tour last Saturday.   And that dapper young fellow in the straw hat, under the pecan tree?  That’s docent Philip Jones, who played the part of Frank T. Roche, an early editor of the Williamson County Sun, my client for this assignment.