Burial Site
by Debbie Holman
"Ehhh!" my Grandpa called out. When we looked over to where he was standing, further downhill from us, his arms were waving, and he was beckoning for us to come his direction.
It was a hot July Sunday afternoon in about 1971 when my parents (M.C. and Lucille Holman), my maternal deaf grandparents (Emil and Ellenora Beutnagel) and I ventured out on the newly-cut and graveled roads of what became Windwood Estates.
At one time in the 1880's, my family had homesteaded the property, and several of my ancestors had been buried there under a large oak tree. Grandma only remembered they were by a big tree, and with the new roads being developed, she had only a vague memory of where the burial site was. My Grandpa was letting us know he had found the tombstones.
Because of the length of time the three members of the Monken family had been buried there, George Ebensberger told my Dad that all we had to do is move the stones to the Boerne Cemetery as the bones would have decomposed by then.
Dad and Grandpa lifted the heavy stones onto the back of Dad's truck, and they were set next to other family members who had been buried in the Boerne Cemetery.
"Where is the exact location?" you may ask.
Only two remaining family members know for sure: Grandma's first cousin Frances Monken Dillon and me, and I know I'm not telling who built a house on top of my ancestor's bones!
