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Bess Cemetery

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Location	:	Mendiates, Duval County, USA
Coordinate	:	27.9797570, -98.2484720
Description	:	Bess (aka Mendieta, Mendiates, Mindieta) is a former community in the extreme northeast corner of Duval County. Formerly, a small wooden church or chapel existed on the west side of County Road 103, and beside it was a small cemetery. In this area, CR-103 is but a gravel road, and the church and cemetery are no longer noticeable. Some short rustic gravestones can be found hiding in the short scrubby brush some tens of yards west of the public road, and beside a private ranch road/driveway heading west. The GPS coordinates given are approximate. from Handbook of... Read More	Bess (aka Mendieta, Mendiates, Mindieta) is a former community in the extreme northeast corner of Duval County. Formerly, a small wooden church or chapel existed on the west side of County Road 103, and beside it was a small cemetery. In this area, CR-103 is but a gravel road, and the church and cemetery are no longer noticeable. Some short rustic gravestones can be found hiding in the short scrubby brush some tens of yards west of the public road, and beside a private ranch road/driveway heading west. The GPS coordinates given are approximate. from Handbook of Texas: Bess was sixteen miles north of San Diego in northeastern Duval County. A post office under the name of Mindiette operated there for less than a year in 1879, with Fabian Favela as postmaster. A second post office named Shaeffer after a local rancher opened in 1883 with John F. Leo Phelan as postmaster. In the 1890s a general store operated in Shaeffer, and by 1914 the town had a cotton gin. The local school was still known as the Mindiette school when forty-one pupils were registered in 1906–07. In 1917 the community was renamed Bess. In 1925 its estimated population was twenty. Two years later the count was 100, but by the mid-1930s it was again twenty, where it remained through 1990. Bess had two businesses during the 1930s, but by the early 1940s only one was still in operation. In the late 1940s the community had a few dwellings, a church, a CEMETERY, and a school. By 1955 the latter was known as the Bess school, but by the mid-1960s it had been consolidated with the San Diego Independent School District. At that time the community, which had a few scattered dwellings and the García and San José cemeteries, was called Mendiates on maps. In the mid-1970s the church was still identified as the Bess church.

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Latitude: 27.9797570
Longitude: -98.2484720

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