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Some Notable Persons in First Street Cemetery of Waco, Texas
This text contains a list of selected persons buried in the First Street Cemetery in Waco, Texas. Each person listed has a full name, birth and death dates, and a short biographical statement. Maps on pages vi and vii show the location of the cemetery within the city.
Date:
2010
Creator:
Willis, T. Bradford
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Parker Place in Lexington]
Photograph of a red-brick Italian Villa-style house known as Parker Place. A sign in the front yard boasts the name and address. It was once the home of Robert Parker and Elizabeth Porter Parker. It is located at 511 West Short Street in Lexington, Kentucky.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Willis, T. Bradford
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Cover of the Parker Family Bible]
Photograph of the cover of a leather-bound Holy Bible belonging to the Robert Henry Parker family. The initials R.H. and S.A. Parker are engraved underneath the title, which is set in a decorative typeface. An intricately engraved border surrounds the title.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Willis, T. Bradford
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Title Page of the Parker Family Bible]
Photograph of the title page inside a pictorial family bible belonging to the Robert Henry Parker family. The page, which is pink in color, presents the necessary information on the publisher, the editor, and other aspects of the edition.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Willis, T. Bradford
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Marriage Certificate of Robert and Sallie Parker]
Photograph of a certificate certifying the marriage of Robert Henry Parker and Sallie Ann Clarke. The certificate features an ornamental, floral border with the image of a couple riding in a boat being led by a robed woman with a torch. According to the certificate, they were married on November 20, 1851. This marriage certificate was found in the R. H. & S. A. Parker Bible.
Date:
1980~/1989~
Creator:
Willis, T. Bradford
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of D. Proctor Woodward]
Photograph of D. Proctor Woodward, the husband of Neva Parker Woodward, according to handwritten information the back of the photo. He is a middle-aged bespectacled man wearing a suit and sitting in an ornate chair with a book in his lap.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of John Todd Parker]
Photograph of John Todd Parker, a middle-aged man with short hair and a mustache, posed for a studio portrait in a three-piece suit. According to a handwritten note on the back, he is the son of Robert H. Parker and Sallie Clarke Parker.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Rodden
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Family Portrait at the Parker Home]
Photograph of a group of women seated together for a portrait on the porch of Robert Henry Parker's home in Abilene, Texas. Sitting on the first row are Lavinia Parker McDaniel and Nellie Parker Davis Jack. On the second row are Hallie Parker Adams, Sallie Ann Clarke Parker (wife of Robert Henry Parker and matriarch of those around her), and Bettie Parker Kelly. On the top row are Sallie Ann Parker Willis (wife of Thomas Middlebrook Willis), Neva Parker Woodward, and Margaret "Mag" Parker Field Cox.
Date:
1922
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A Presbyterian Communion Table]
Photograph of a communion table inside the chapel of the First Central Presbyterian Church in Abilene, Texas. The table was donated to the First Presbyterian Church by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henry Parker.
Date:
1980~/1989~
Creator:
Willis, T. Bradford
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman with the Parker Bell]
Photograph of Lavinia Ward, née McDaniel, standing outside of her brick house with a small hand bell, known as the Parker Bell, that belonged to her grandfather, Robert Henry Parker. It is resting it on the lip of a planter or urn in front of the house. A handwritten note on the back claims that the bell was once "used to call slaves in each day."
Date:
1985
Creator:
Willis, T. Bradford
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Margaret McDowell Sleeper]
Photograph of Margaret McDowell Stribling Sleeper, an elderly woman wearing austere black clothing and a bonnet. According to handwritten notes on the back of the photo, she was the wife of Gideon Sleeper, the mother of Gardner Southworth Sleeper, and the grandmother of Nannie Sleeper Evans.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Margaret McDowell]
Photograph of Margaret Stribling Sleeper, née McDowell. She is an elderly woman clad in austere clothing and is wearing a lace bonnet in her hair. On the back of the photo is a sticker with the text, "Margaret McDowell 1793-1864." The portrait hung in a descendant's home in Waco, Texas for many years.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Willis, John Todd
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Isadore Sleeper]
Photograph of Isadore Elizabeth Sleeper, née Causey. She is wearing austere clothing and has her hair pulled back. According to a handwritten note on the back, she was born in 1838 and died in 1914, and was the wife of Gardner S. Sleeper.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of the Gardner Southworth Sleeper Home near Hewitt, Texas]
Photograph of a house, a mostly wooden structure, that belonged to the Gardner Southworth Sleeper family. Part of the structure is missing. Handwritten notes on the front and back of the photo provide various pieces of information: "my grandfather Sleeper home on Old Hewitt Road. Part of it still standing 1970. Built in 1879."
Date:
July 1972
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Emma Shaw Broiles]
Photograph of Emma Shaw Broiles, a young woman clad in high-collared clothing with a floral boutonniere pinned to the chest. Her hair is pulled back with a pompadour at the front. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo provide information about the Shaw family and the Sleeper family. One of the notes reveals that the photo was "purchased at Frank M. Quinius' estate sale in Waco, 2007."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Jackson, W. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Julia Sleeper Stribling]
Photograph of Julia Sleeper Stribling, a young woman wearing a high-collared, button-up ensemble with a floral boutonniere pinned to the chest. Her hair is pulled back with a pompadour at the front.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Jackson, W. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Young Man and Woman]
Photograph of a young man and young woman, Henry Frank Smith and Monetta Stribling, locking arms and posing for a picture. Behind them an automobile is partially visible. They are dressed in semi-formal attire; the young woman has a corsage attached to her clothing.
Date:
December 1917
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Women Riding Mules in Colorado]
Postcard featuring a photograph of three women riding mules near a waterfall in Colorado. Two of the women are identified as Elizabeth "Bessie" Causey Miles and Lucy Sleeper Miles. The antlers of a deer are visible directly behind the women.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Group of Friends on a Seashore]
Postcard featuring a photograph of four people — Henry Willard Quinius, Elizabeth "Bessie" Causey Miles Quinius, Nannie Clara Evans Willis, and John T. Willis, Sr. They are clad in their bathing suits; the women are wearing swimming caps.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Nannie Sleeper Evans]
Photograph of Nannie Caroline Sleeper Evans, a young woman wearing a high-collared ensemble with a lace bib in the style of 19th century American West clothing. Her hair is swept back with a crown set atop her head.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Jackson, W. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Stained Glass Window at a Church]
Copy photograph of a stained glass window at First Presbyterian Church in Waco, Texas. It features an image of Jesus Christ with the text "I am the vine; ye are the branches." The window is a memorial for Fabius Hoyt Sleeper and Pattie Markham Sleeper.
Date:
1984
Creator:
Willis, T. Bradford
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Stained Glass Window at St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Waco]
Copy photograph of a stained glass window at St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Waco, Texas. It features the image of Jesus, indicated by a nimbus with a cross, speaking in the Temple. The window is in memorial of Elizabeth Day Sleeper.
Date:
1984
Creator:
Willis, T. Bradford
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Charles Evans, Sr.]
Photograph of Charles Evans, Sr., a middle-aged mustached man wearing a three-piece suit and tie. He is only visible from the chest up.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Jackson, W. D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Nannie Sleeper Evans]
Photograph of Nannie Caroline Sleeper Evans, a woman with curly upswept hair, wearing austere, high-collared clothing. She is only visible from the chest up. Handwritten notes on the back read, "My mother Nannie C. Sleeper Evans married Charles Evans Feb. 14, 1880."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History