Heards Prairie Baptist Church Cemetery
(Also Known As Petteway or Post Oak Cemetery)
Robertson County, Texas
Introduction
| Location: From Bremond, take Farm Road 2293 east eight miles to the church-covered pavilion-cemetery complex shown below. From Franklin, take State Road 46 north about four miles to north on Farm Road 979, then northwest on Farm Road 2293 to the cemetery. |
| George H. and Susannah Lambkin Brantner arrived in Texas about 1851 and are the ascendants of
the Texas Brantners. Of their nine children, only two sons had boys to perpetuate the
Brantner name in Texas. John Mathious Brantner is responsible for the first East Texas
descendants. Ambrose Lee Brantner (my grandfather) migrated to West Texas.
The grave of George H. Brantner has never been located, but he is presumed buried in Montgomery County, Texas. Susannah Brantner is buried in the Ellis Cemetery in Stephens County, Texas. John Mathious and a large number of his descendants and kindred are buried in the Heards Prairie/Petteway Cemetery. Ambrose Brantner is buried in the Red Mud Cemetery in Dickens County, Texas. |
JJY048 - Heards Prairie Missionary Baptist Church - 1876
Pencil sketch by unknown artist. Note the double doors, common in early
southern churches. The men and women entered and sat separately.
(Courtesy of Hubert Willis Brantner, via Gerrie Jones Yates)
29_073 - Cemetery and church - 2002
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| CP_01 - Original Entrance Gate 1876 - |
JJY045 - Heards Prairie Baptist Church Sign |
JJY117 - New Entrance Gate - 2005
(Courtesy of Gerrie Jones Yates)
JJY024 - Baptist Church and Pavilion - 2005
(Courtesy of Gerrie Jones Yates)
29_045 - Historic Marker - Robertson County
Located in Bremond, Texas
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ROBERTSON COUNTY Settled by people from Tennessee under an 1822 contract held by Sterling Black Robertson
(1785-1842), who was later signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Colony and county were named for him. County was created Dec. 14, 1837, organized March 1838. |
| Thanks to Gerrie Dickens Yates, a complete listing, with annotated relationships, for the Heards Prairie - Petteway Cemetery is available at
Cemeteries of Texas. |
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