Wednesday's Child - Baby Dora

Baby Dora

In addition to the professional, carved gravestones in Moore's Chapel Cemetery there are numerous field stones used as grave markers and several homemade stones such as this one for baby Dora Rabe.

The only Rabe family in the area came to Leon County, Texas a short while before the 1880 census was taken. In that census Christain and Caroline Rabe, both born in Prussia, are recorded there along with their six children ranging in ages from 14 to 2 years old. All six children are listed as having been born in Missouri so the family must have moved to Texas between 1878 and 1880.

Baby Dora was not listed on that census so she was apparently born after 1880 and before 1889 for her mother Caroline's gravestone records her death on Good Friday of 1889.

Back in Texas - Moore's Chapel Cemetery

Moore's Chapel Cemetery's last burial was in the 1880's. The stage road that went past it and the chapel for which it is named are long since gone. Only the cemetery is left to mark the location on the back side of my cousin Debby's farm in Leon County. The fence isn't very decorative, but Aunt Ruby put it there years ago to keep the cows out of the cemetery.

Georgie Nippert

Born
Mar. 10, 1883
Died
Aug. 23, 1885

We loved this tender little one
And would have wished him stay
But let our Father's will be done
he shines in endless days
(Inscription on Reverse)

Carolyn Rabe

Born
Sept. 19, 1841
Died
Good Friday 1889

James Thomas Nippert

Born
Nov. 30, 1862
Died
Oct. 10, 1889