Submitted by Cynthia Webster

Annual Homecoming of the Joaquin Community Cemetery is June 14

June 2, 2025 - Come join us for the Annual Homecoming of the Joaquin Community Cemetery to be held at the First Baptist Church of Joaquin on Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 10:30am.

Door prizes including local honey will be awarded. There will be a presentation on Connell Family History and the Connell's Ferry.

A regular business meeting will be conducted and an offering will be taken for the upkeep of the cemetery.

Joshua Hall Truitt; Citizen of the Republic of Texas Presented by the William Carrol Crawford DRT

April 28, 2016 - Joshua Hall Truitt was born in North Carolina on 11/21/1829 to James and Sarah Hall Truitt. His family migrated to Texas in 1838 and arrived before his tenth birthday.  By 1840, the Truitt family settled in what is now known as the Pine Ridge area on lands where the Truitt cemetery is located.

Jesse Amason, Citizen/Patriot of the Republic of Texas

October 28, 2015 Presented by the William Carrol Crawford DRT - Jesse Amason arrived in Texas by 1834. Amason fought in the Texas Revolution and received two land grants from the Republic of Texas. He also had received a Mexican head right land grant of a "league and a labor" (4605 acres of land), which was recognized by the Republic of Texas. Jesse located that grant in Shelby County Texas. Sarah A. (Inman) Amason received a widow's pension because Jesse also fought in the War with Mexico in 1846 and in 1847-48.

William Carroll Crawford DRT Presents: A Biography of Louisiana Morris Truitt

April 21, 2015 - Louisiana was born 8/27/1834 in in Marengo County, Alabama to Elijah Morris and Sarah Pope. She arrived in Texas in 1838 with her family and grew up in the area that is now Joaquin. Her sisters were Elizabeth J. Morris Foreman, Sarah Lelia Morris Kirkland, and Mary Morris Burns.

Her brothers were Benjamin Franklin (Frank), James, John, and William.

William Carroll Crawford DRT Presents: A Biography of Louisiana Morris Truitt

April 21, 2015 - Louisiana was born 8/27/1834 in in Marengo County, Alabama to Elijah Morris and Sarah Pope. She arrived in Texas in 1838 with her family and grew up in the area that is now Joaquin. Her sisters were Elizabeth J. Morris Foreman, Sarah Lelia Morris Kirkland, and Mary Morris Burns.

Her brothers were Benjamin Franklin (Frank), James, John, and William.

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