After lunch when we got ready to go back home from Comanche, Avis asked if I would like to see a couple of "hole in the wall" communities nearby, and I was up for it. The first place she took me was a little community call Sipes Springs. The locals pronounce it "Seeps" Springs because it was a spring that was seeping from the ground and the person who got to name the town didn't know how to spell! A few homes are still there and it actually had a post office. The three main attractions were a Confederate Monument put up by people who moved there trying to escape the Reconstructionist after the Civil War. It is hidden from view well enough I guess that no one has screamed about taking it down. The second thing was a very old, original log cabin set up on a bluff overlooking a beautiful valley below. The door was open but I wouldn't venture in due to it being rattlesnake moving season. But I got a shot of the inside fireplace. The last thing was really kind of weird. Down a long dirt road is a grave on the side of the road with a marker for an unnamed 3 year old girl who died in 1870 as her parents were moving to the area. Through the years, another finer marker was made and then in the last couple of decades, people have started to decorate it and leave toys, etc.
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| Confederate marker |
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| Log cabin |
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Old fireplace and as you can see, the chinking has come out of the logs
in many places |
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Original marker at top and newer one below--note all the coins--I thought
that was weird. |
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Whole grave smothered in toys and coins
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After seeing Sipes Springs, we headed toward home and went through the almost ghost town of Democrat, Texas. Not much left alive there--but a nice cemetery.
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