Sanzenbacher Ranch Burial Sites
Clay County, Texas, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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Add PhotosThe various headstones can only be accessed throughout the property with a four wheeler and the ranch manager drove us to all of the burial locations. He took us to the Sanzenbacher's original dugout. Not a home, just a dug out portion of the land where they lived for many years before they built the stone home which is pictured. Two of the Sanzenbacher children are buried at the front of this dugout with an iron fence around it.
In the pasture near the Little Wichita River there is a headstone simply marked "Unknown Cowboy – Drowned in East Fork about 1881". The story told is that the river would really overflow during heavy rainstorms. Apparently this unknown cowboy tried to escape the rushing waters by climbing in a tree. The family found him several days later, dead in the tree. They wanted to give him a proper burial so they buried him next to a pretty tank far away from the river.
The Sanzenbacher's traveled a long way from Germany to make a home in the United States. Now their ranch, which has been in the same family for 100 years, is one of the largest ranches in Clay County.
The various headstones can only be accessed throughout the property with a four wheeler and the ranch manager drove us to all of the burial locations. He took us to the Sanzenbacher's original dugout. Not a home, just a dug out portion of the land where they lived for many years before they built the stone home which is pictured. Two of the Sanzenbacher children are buried at the front of this dugout with an iron fence around it.
In the pasture near the Little Wichita River there is a headstone simply marked "Unknown Cowboy – Drowned in East Fork about 1881". The story told is that the river would really overflow during heavy rainstorms. Apparently this unknown cowboy tried to escape the rushing waters by climbing in a tree. The family found him several days later, dead in the tree. They wanted to give him a proper burial so they buried him next to a pretty tank far away from the river.
The Sanzenbacher's traveled a long way from Germany to make a home in the United States. Now their ranch, which has been in the same family for 100 years, is one of the largest ranches in Clay County.
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- Added: 24 Oct 2015
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2594031
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